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Evidentiality in discourse

• Anita Fetzer

  Anita Fetzer is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She is currently engaged in research projects on follow-ups in political discourse, and the linguistic representation of discourse relations. Her research interests focus on context, functional grammar, contrastive analysis, and modality and evidentiality. She has had a series of articles published on rejections, context, and political discourse. Her most recent publications are The pragmatics of political discourse (2013), Contexts and context: parts meets whole (2011, with Etsuko Oishi), and Context and appropriateness (2007).

  and Etsuko Oishi

  Etsuko Oishi is a Professor of Linguistics at Tokyo University of Science. She received her Ph.D. from University of Edinburgh in 1999. Her research interests focus on Austinian speech act theory, context and contextualization, discourse analysis, modality and evidentiality, indexicality, implicature, media discourse, and translation. She has published many articles on context, appropriateness, apologies, evidentiality and modality, and referring and predicating. She is the co-editor (with Anita Fetzer) of Context and contexts: Parts meet whole? (Benjamins 2011).