Epistemic meaning : a crosslinguistic and functional-cognitive study

Epistemic meaning : a crosslinguistic and functional-cognitive study / by Kasper Boye.

This book deals with epistemic expressions: the linguistic means we have for expressing our degree of certainty about and our type of evidence for propositions about the world. It presents a cross-linguistic study of such expressions and demonstrates that they behave in a way that can be described i...

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Main Author: Boye, Kasper, 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
Series:Empirical approaches to language typology ; 43.
Subjects:
English language > Modality.
English language > Semantics.
Linguistic universals.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
English language > Modality
English language > Semantics
Linguistic universals
Proposition
Modalität > Linguistik
Epistemische Logik
Semantik
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Summary:This book deals with epistemic expressions: the linguistic means we have for expressing our degree of certainty about and our type of evidence for propositions about the world. It presents a cross-linguistic study of such expressions and demonstrates that they behave in a way that can be described in terms of a coherent but complex meaning domain. In order to account for this behaviour the book proposes to analyse epistemic meaning in terms of a coherent but complex cognitive structure which is bound up with our cognitive capacity for relating our conception of the world to the world.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 373 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9783110219036
3110219034
ISSN:0933-761X ;

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