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Author:   Maite Taboada ,  Rada Trnavac
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   11
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9789004258167

ISBN 10:   9004258167
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   24 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Nonveridicality and Evaluation across Disciplinary Boundaries Maite Taboada and Radoslava Trnavac Part 1: Evaluation and Nonveridicality in Semantics 1 (Non)veridicality, Evaluation, and Event Actualization: Evidence from the Subjunctive in Relative Clauses Anastasia Giannakidou 2 Have to, Have Got to, and Must: NSM Analyses of English Modal Verbs of ‘Necessity’ Cliff Goddard 3 How ‘Logical’ are Logical Words? Negation and its Descriptive vs. Metalinguistic Uses Jacques Moeschler Part 2: Evaluation, Nonveridicality and Coherence in Computational Modelling 4 Determining Negation Scope in German and English Medical Diagnoses Oliver Gros and Manfred Stede 5 Assessing Opinions in Texts: Does Discourse Really Matter? Farah Benamara, Vladimir Popescu, Baptiste Chardon, Nicholas Asher, and Yannick Mathieu Part 3: Corpus Studies on Evaluation and Coherence in Nonveridical Contexts 6 Subjectivity and Prototype Structure in Causal Connective Use across Discourse Contexts Ninke Stukker and Ted Sanders 7 ‘If You Do It too then RT and Say #Idoit2’: The Co-Patterning of Contingency and Evaluation in Microblogging Michele Zappavigna Index of Subjects Index of Names

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Maite Taboada is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She works in the areas of discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and computational linguistics.Ongoing research includes opinion and sentiment in text, coherence in multimodal documents, and cataphoric relations. Radoslava Trnavac is a Lecturer in the Cognitive Science Program (Simon Fraser University, Canada). She works in the areas of cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis. Her current research addresses the interaction between coherence, cataphora, and event structure. Contributors include: Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara, Baptiste Chardon, Anastasia Giannakidou, Cliff Goddard, Oliver Gros, Yannick Matthieu, Jacques Moeschler, Vladimir Popescu, Ted Sanders, Manfred Stede, Ninke Stukker, and Michele Zappavigna.

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