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OverviewThe selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the communication of certainty and uncertainty from different scientific fields, theoretical approaches and perspectives, this compendium of state-of-the-art research papers provides both an interdisciplinary comparison of the latest investigations, methods and findings, and new advances and theoretical insights with a common focus on human communication. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sibilla Cantarini (University of Verona) , Werner Abraham (University of Vienna & Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich) , Elisabeth Leiss (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 165 Weight: 0.835kg ISBN: 9789027259301ISBN 10: 9027259305 Pages: 365 Publication Date: 14 November 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. Certainty: the conceptual differential; 4. Certainty: its conceptual differential in Accessible World Semantics (by Abraham, Werner); 5. Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian framework (by Leiss, Elisabeth); 6. (Un)Certainty as attitudinality; 7. Counter-argumentation and modality (by Lo Cascio, Vincenzo); 8. Explanation as a certainty marker in persuasive dialogue (by Dufour, Michel); 9. How to deal with attitude strength in debating situations. A survey on forewarning, argument strength, repetition, and source credibility as mediators of uncertainty (by De Conti, Manuele); 10. The role of subjective certainty in the epistemology of testimony: a contextualist perspective (by Croce, Michel); 11. Uncertainty in polar questions and certainty in answers? (by Kleiber, Judit); 12. Lying as a scalar phenomenon: insincerity along the certainty-uncertainty continuum (by Marsili, Neri); 13. Persuasion pragmatic strategies in L1/L2 Italian argument-ative speech (by Salvati, Luisa); 14. Dialogical exchange and speech acts; 15. What do I know as yet? (by Hundsnurscher, Franz); 16. On polar questions, negation, and the syntactic encoding of epistemicity (by Cantarini, Sibilla); 17. Epistemic uncertainty and the syntax of speech acts (by Judge, Kate E.); 18. Discursive functions of evidentials and epistemic modals (by Oishi, Etsuko); 19. Onomasiology; 20. Vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation. Cognitive and lexical aspects in English, Swedish, and Italian (by Allwood, Jens); 21. Latin commitment-markers: scilicet and videlicet (by Schrickx, Josine); 22. Italian come se as if : evidential and epistemic aspects (by Zuczkowski, Andrzej); 23. Applications in exegesis and religious discourse; 24. The communication of certainty/uncertainty within a Gospel passage (John 9:1-41) (by Salvato, Lucia); 25. Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourse (by Scardigno, Rosa); 26. Subject indexReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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