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Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure
Viviana Masia
[Advances in Interaction Studies 9] 2017
► pp. 51–80

Chapter 3
Sociobiological perspectives

For a unified account of evidentiality and information structure

Article outline
  • 3.1Preamble
  • 3.2Evidence, territory of knowledge, epistemic statuses and epistemic stances
  • 3.3Evidentiality in the world’s languages: Information source and speaker’s attitude
    • 3.3.1Information source evidentiality
    • 3.3.2Speaker attitude evidentiality
  • 3.4Evidentiality and information structure
    • 3.4.1Epistemic stances and the evidential values encoded by IS units
      • 3.4.1.1Assertion, focus and personal experience evidentiality
      • 3.4.1.2Presupposition, topic and factual evidentiality
  • 3.5Closure
  • Notes