Kira Boulat

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kira Boulat plays a role.

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Boulat, Kira 2015 Hearer-oriented processes of strength assignment: a pragmatic model of commitment Evidentiality and the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Cornillie, Bert and Juana I. Marín-Arrese (eds.), pp. 19–40 | Article
This relevance-based account of commitment borrows from studies on epistemic vigilance and focuses on the hearer’s perspective. It suggests that commitment determines the strength of the contextual assumptions derived from utterance interpretation. In this contribution, I distinguish four kinds of… read more