Search results for "Evidentiality"

Mitigation and reinforcement in general knowledge expressions

2020

Abstract Speakers often mitigate by downgrading their own role in their utterances, depersonalizing the origin of their utterances and de-focalizing the deictic-personal point of reference (Briz, 1998; Caffi, 2007). Linguistically, this can be accomplished by means of impersonalization, generalization and referencing general knowledge. Interestingly, using expressions that suggest the objective, general or shared status of information can, in some cases, lead to argumentative reinforcement or boosting 1 (Cornillie, 2007a, b; Caffi, 1999; Briz, 2016). Our goal is to examine the relationship between the functions of mitigation and reinforcement in indirect evidential expressions of common kno…

Using discourse markers to negotiate epistemic stance: A view from situated language use

2021

Abstract In this paper, I analyse the usage of a discourse marker =mari, belonging to the epistemic paradigm attested in Upper Napo Kichwa (Quechuan, Ecuador). I show that the use of =mari indicates that the information is known well to the speaker, but also to some extent familiar to the addressee. In situated language use, the marker contributes to creating a knowing epistemic stance of the speaker. The analysis presented here is based on a 13-h documentary corpus of interactive Upper Napo Kichwa discourse, recorded on audio and video. For the purpose of the paper, the relevant utterances are analysed in their broad interactional context, including not only the surrounding text, but also …

Evidential meanings of o eso dicen

2019

En este artículo se analizan los valores del significado evidencial transmitidos por la construcción o eso dicen. Se examinan los distintos patrones discursivos y sintácticos en los que dicha construcción aparece, así como su uso como marca de evidencialidad indirecta. El análisis se realiza a partir del Corpus de Español (sección Web/Dialects) y se centra en la variedad europea del español. Se concluye que o eso dicen transmite diferentes valores de evidencialidad, tales como significado reportativo, rumor y folclore que vienen determinados por factores relacionados con la fijación de la construcción, el tipo de la fuente de información a la que remite y el carácter del ámbito sobre el que…

Chapter 2. On the dynamicity of evidential scales

2018

Chapter 3. Exploring evidentiality in Spanish Biology articles (1850–1920)

2018

Chapter 1. Evidentiality in discourse

2018

Chapter 6. Prosody, genres and evidentiality in Spanish

2018

¿Atenuación del compromiso del hablante?: el caso de los evidenciales "por lo visto" y "se ve que"

2018

espanolBuena parte de la bibliografia sobre marcadores evidenciales en espanol senala la atenuacion del compromiso (o responsabilidad) de lo dicho como uno de sus rasgos definitorios. Sin embargo, tanto la nocion de atenuacion como la de compromiso del hablante se han empleado con distintas acepciones, segun los trabajos. En primer lugar, se revisan estas acepciones y se propone, siguiendo a Cornillie/Delbecque, distinguir las nociones compromiso del hablante de implicacion del hablante, las cuales funcionan de manera inversa en algunos usos evidenciales: (i) de las evidencias reportativas a las inferenciales conjeturales hay una escala de menos a mas implicacion del hablante; (ii) en las e…

Introduction to the special issue

2018

Does the source matter?

2018

Abstract This article provides an insight into the expression of reportative evidentiality in Spanish scientific articles published between 1799 and 1920. Central to the discussion is the presence and specificity of sources in reportative constructions. While contemporary scientific discourse prioritizes the use of specific, reportative-quotative evidentials, this is not a constant feature of articles analyzed in this study. In order to trace this historical variation, we established a classification of reportative constructions according to the specificity of the evidence they convey and we conducted both qualitative and quantitative analyses. According to our results, different specificit…