Epistemic stance in English conversation : a description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think / Elise Kärkkäinen.

This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between co...

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Main Author: Kärkkäinen, Elise
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2003.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 115.
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