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Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific ContextsEdited by Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari
[Dialogue Studies 25] 2014
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Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari
[Dialogue Studies 25] 2014
► pp. v–vii
Table of contents
Theoretical and general models
Subjectivity in modality, and beyond
Certainty and uncertainty in assertive speech acts
Ideal and deviant interlocutors in a formal interpretation system
On being certain whether: A puzzle about indirect interrogatives
Uncertainty as integrated part of meaning and understanding
Epistemic stance: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing (KUB) positions
Medical and supportive interactions
Requesting help with null or limited knowledge: Entitlements and responsibility in emergency calls
The journey to advice: Balancing certainty and uncertainty in doctor delivery of expert opinion
Diagnostic news delivery: A microanalysis of the use of shields
Epistemic struggles in addiction Therapeutic Community meetings
Embodying epistemicity: Negotiating (un)certainty through semiotic objects
Scientific writing and academic communication
The fabric of certainty: Ignoring interactional details as an epistemic resource in research interviews
Hedging and attitude markers in Spanish and English scientific medical writing
A theoretical contribution to tackling certainty and uncertainty in scientific writing: Four research articles from the journal
Brain in focus
BioUncertainty: A historical corpus evaluating uncertainty language over a 167-year span of biomedical scientific articles
Uncertainty markers in a corpus of German biomedical papers from Spektrum der Wissenschaft (1993-2012)
Questioning certainty in research articles and popular science articles: A case-study of modalized wh-interrogatives
Self-repairs and certainty in Romanian academic meetings
About the authors
Index
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