Evidentiality, intersubjectivity and salience in Spanish and Catalan markers claro/clar and la verdad/veritat
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Montserrat González
Montserrat González is a Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests lie in the pragmatic-semantic interface (cognitive-functional domain) of linguistic forms, focusing on the procedural meaning and deictic nature of markers, subjectification, speaker's epistemic stance, and linguistic strategies that convey evidentiary support in discourse, primarily from a contrastive point of view.
Abstract
From an interactional perspective, this paper explores the evidential and salient meanings of Spanish and Catalan pragmatic markers claro/clar and la verdad/veritat, focusing on their intersubjective nature. Salience is the prominence that speakers give to certain meanings of lexemes based on prior experience, familiarity or convention (Giora, 2003; Kecskes 2013). Intersubjectivity involves the sharing of responsibility and commitment to the validity of the information provided (Nuyts 2001). The working hypothesis is that these markers adopt a twofold cognitive-functional role depending on: (i) the nature of the interactional communicative context; (ii) the newness or givenness of the information. In a monologic segment, the speaker makes use of the evidentials to argue and share with the interlocutor his/her epistemological stance and perspective through an inferential reasoning process; the aim is persuasive and evaluative. In a dialogic segment, their role is that of truth-attesting and the negotiation of salient meaning.
About the author
Montserrat González is a Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests lie in the pragmatic-semantic interface (cognitive-functional domain) of linguistic forms, focusing on the procedural meaning and deictic nature of markers, subjectification, speaker's epistemic stance, and linguistic strategies that convey evidentiary support in discourse, primarily from a contrastive point of view.
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- Evidentiality in discourse
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