Evidentiality Revisited

Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives

Editors

Juana I. Marín-Arrese | Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Gerda Haßler | Universität Potsdam

Marta Carretero | Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with special emphasis on the use of evidential and epistemic expressions as resources for stancetaking in discourse. The volume addresses issues such as the relationship between the conceptual domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality, the role of evidential and epistemic resources in modelling stancetaking, the expression of speaker commitment to the validity status of the information, and the discourse-pragmatic variation of evidentiality and epistemic modality in discourse domains and genres. The volume offers a collection of contributions in which cross-linguistic studies and corpus-based studies contribute to provide further insights into a usage-based account of linguistic reality.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 271] 2017. vi, 320 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.271

Table of Contents

Introduction. Evidentiality revisited

Juana I. Marín Arrese, Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero | pp. 1–9

Section A.. Evidentiality: Cognitive Grammar and Functional Grammar Approaches

Chapter 1. Evidentiality in Cognitive Grammar

Ronald W. Langacker | pp. 13–55

Chapter 2. Evidentiality reconsidered

Jan Nuyts | pp. 57–83

Section B.. Evidentiality in Grammar and Discourse

Chapter 3. On the evidential use of English adverbials and their equivalents in Romance languages and Russian: A morpho-syntactic analysis

Verónica Böhm, Gerda Haßler and Anja Hennemann | pp. 87–104

Chapter 4. When feeling is thinking: A lexical-semantic analysis of evidential and epistemic predicates in Spanish

Gijs Mulder | pp. 105–121

Chapter 5. Seem-type verbs in Dutch and German : Lijken, schijnen & scheinen

Tanja Mortelmans | pp. 123–148

Chapter 6. A synchronic and diachronic study of the Dutch Auxiliary “Zou(den)”

Ingeborg Harmes | pp. 149–169

Chapter 7. Potential vs Use: Revisiting an evidential participial construction in Lithuanian

Aurelija Usonienė and Jolanta Šinkūnienė | pp. 171–192

Section C.. Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Discourse Domains and Genres

Chapter 8. Multifunctionality of evidential expressions in discourse domains and genres: Evidence from cross-linguistic case studies

Juana I. Marín-Arrese | pp. 195–223

Chapter 9. Evidential and epistemic stance strategies in scientific communication: A corpus study of semi-formal and expert publications

Laura Hidalgo-Downing | pp. 225–248

Chapter 10. Be likely to and be expected to, epistemic modality or evidentiality? Markers of (non)commitment in newspaper discourse

Anne-Laure Besnard | pp. 249–269

Chapter 11. Markers of evidentiality in Lithuanian newspaper discourse: A corpus-based study

Anna Ruskan | pp. 271–295

Chapter 12. Exploring evidential uses of the passive of reporting verbs through corpus analysis

Ruth Breeze | pp. 297–313

“The book represents an impressive collection of papers mirroring the recent shift in evidentiality studies to cognitive and functional aspects. By opening up research on evidentiality to semantic, functional and pragmatic aspects, it shows convincingly how evidential markers have an important role to express personal attitudes, beliefs and evaluation.”

Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg, in Discourse Studies 20(3) 2018

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