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Epistemic meaning : a crosslinguistic and functional-cognitive study /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2012.
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| Colección: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
43. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 373 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110219036 3110219034 |
| ISSN: | 0933-761X ; |