Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

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Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

Edited by: Sibilla Cantarini , Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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Volume 165 | Studies in Language Companion Series

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The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the communication of certainty and uncertainty from different scientific fields, theoretical approaches and perspectives, this compendium of state-of-the-art research papers provides both an interdisciplinary comparison of the latest investigations, methods and findings, and new advances and theoretical insights with a common focus on human communication.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Certainty
Certainty its conceptual differential in Accessible World Semantics Werner Abraham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian framework Elisabeth Leiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
(Un)Certainty as attitudinality
Counter-argumentation and modality Vincenzo Lo Cascio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Explanation as a certainty marker in persuasive dialogue Michel Dufour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
How to deal with attitude strength in debating situations. A survey on forewarning, argument strength, repetition, and source credibility as mediators of uncertainty Manuele De Conti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
The role of subjective certainty in the epistemology of testimony a contextualist perspective Michel Croce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Uncertainty in polar questions and certainty in answers? Judit Kleiber and Gábor Alberti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Lying as a scalar phenomenon insincerity along the certainty-uncertainty continuum Neri Marsili Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Persuasion pragmatic strategies in L1/L2 Italian argument-ative speech Luisa Salvati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Dialogical exchange and speech acts
What do I know as yet? Franz Hundsnurscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
On polar questions, negation, and the syntactic encoding of epistemicity Sibilla Cantarini and Jacopo Torregrossa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Epistemic uncertainty and the syntax of speech acts Kate E. Judge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
Discursive functions of evidentials and epistemic modals Etsuko Oishi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Onomasiology
Vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation. Cognitive and lexical aspects in English, Swedish, and Italian Jens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Isabella Poggi, Laura Vincze and Francesca D’Errico Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
Latin commitment-markers scilicet and videlicet Josine Schrickx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
Italian come se “as if” evidential and epistemic aspects Andrzej Zuczkowski, Gianluca Colella, Ilaria Riccioni, Ramona Bongelli and Carla Canestrari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
Applications in exegesis and religious discourse
The communication of certainty/uncertainty within a Gospel passage (John 9:1-41) Lucia Salvato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourse Rosa Scardigno and Giuseppe Mininni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363

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October 24, 2014

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9789027269140

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365

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.165

eBook ISBN: 9789027269140

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Philosophy; Pragmatics; Theoretical linguistics; Discourse studies; Cognition and language; Semantics

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Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

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