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Chapter 6. Expressing sources of information, knowledge and belief in English and Spanish informative financial texts

  • Marta Carretero and Yolanda Berdasco-Gancedo
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Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality
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Abstract

This chapter presents a qualitative and quantitative analysis of expressions of sources of information, knowledge and belief and their combination with grammaticalized devices of future time from the perspective of the present and the past (‘will’, ‘would’ and their Spanish equivalents) in a corpus of English and Spanish informative financial texts belonging to two levels of specialization. The qualitative analysis describes the expressions concerned and their use in the corpus. The quantitative analysis uncovers the influence of language and level of specialization on the relative frequency of different expressions of source of information, knowledge and belief, a tendency for future time devices to occur within their scope, and a positive relation between the relative frequencies of both kinds of expressions.

Abstract

This chapter presents a qualitative and quantitative analysis of expressions of sources of information, knowledge and belief and their combination with grammaticalized devices of future time from the perspective of the present and the past (‘will’, ‘would’ and their Spanish equivalents) in a corpus of English and Spanish informative financial texts belonging to two levels of specialization. The qualitative analysis describes the expressions concerned and their use in the corpus. The quantitative analysis uncovers the influence of language and level of specialization on the relative frequency of different expressions of source of information, knowledge and belief, a tendency for future time devices to occur within their scope, and a positive relation between the relative frequencies of both kinds of expressions.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2. A quantitative perspective on modality and future tense in French and German 19
  6. Chapter 3. The temporal uses of French devoir and Estonian pidama (‘must’) 41
  7. Chapter 4. The competition between the present conditional and the prospective imperfect in French over the centuries: First results 65
  8. Chapter 5. Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish 83
  9. Chapter 6. Expressing sources of information, knowledge and belief in English and Spanish informative financial texts 109
  10. Chapter 7. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan 145
  11. Chapter 8. ‘I think’ 165
  12. Chapter 9. Embedding evidence in Tagalog and German 185
  13. Chapter 10. Questions as indirect speech acts in surprise contexts 213
  14. Chapter 11. Non-finiteness, complementation and evidentiality 239
  15. Chapter 12. The perfect in Avar and Andi 261
  16. Chapter 13. The different grammars of event singularisation 281
  17. Chapter 14. Phraseological usage patterns of past tenses 309
  18. Chapter 15. Path scales 335
  19. Name Index 357
  20. Subject index 363
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.197.06car

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
  5. Chapter 2. A quantitative perspective on modality and future tense in French and German 19
  6. Chapter 3. The temporal uses of French devoir and Estonian pidama (‘must’) 41
  7. Chapter 4. The competition between the present conditional and the prospective imperfect in French over the centuries: First results 65
  8. Chapter 5. Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish 83
  9. Chapter 6. Expressing sources of information, knowledge and belief in English and Spanish informative financial texts 109
  10. Chapter 7. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan 145
  11. Chapter 8. ‘I think’ 165
  12. Chapter 9. Embedding evidence in Tagalog and German 185
  13. Chapter 10. Questions as indirect speech acts in surprise contexts 213
  14. Chapter 11. Non-finiteness, complementation and evidentiality 239
  15. Chapter 12. The perfect in Avar and Andi 261
  16. Chapter 13. The different grammars of event singularisation 281
  17. Chapter 14. Phraseological usage patterns of past tenses 309
  18. Chapter 15. Path scales 335
  19. Name Index 357
  20. Subject index 363
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