Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English
This volume explores a model of epistemic stance, according to which speakers can communicate each single piece of information either as known/certain or uncertain or unknown. It presents a qualitative analysis of extracts from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 to support the idea that questio...
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| Формат: | Электронная книга |
| Язык: | English |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Cambridge Scholars Publisher,
2021.
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| Online-ссылка: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Итог: | This volume explores a model of epistemic stance, according to which speakers can communicate each single piece of information either as known/certain or uncertain or unknown. It presents a qualitative analysis of extracts from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 to support the idea that questions come from two distinct epistemic positions: the Unknowing and the Uncertain; this latter ranges along two poles: Not Knowing Whether and Believing.In the epistemic continuum, Unknowing questions express a lack of knowledge and range from open to closed and dual wh-questions. On the other hand, Un. |
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| Примечание: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Объем: | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| ISBN: | 1527567346 9781527567344 |