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Epistemic Stance in Dialogue: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing
Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli and Ilaria Riccioni
[Dialogue Studies 29] 2017
► pp. 45–84

Chapter 3
Knowing, Unknowing, Blieving positions

The KUB model

Article outline
  • 3.1Our study 2008
    • 3.1.1Participants
    • 3.1.2Materials
    • 3.1.3Procedures
    • 3.1.4Methodology used to analyse texts
    • 3.1.5Corpus description
    • 3.1.6The exemplary qualitative analysis of three texts from the corpus
      • Text 1 (T1):A text in the past indicative without world-constitutive lexical markers
      • Text 2 (T2):A text in the present indicative without world-constitutive lexical markers
      • Text 3 (T3):A text with lexical markers both world-constitutive and descriptive
    • 3.2Evidential and epistemic worlds or positions
      • 3.2.1The world of the Known/Certain or the Knowing/Certain position
      • 3.2.2The world of the Believed/Uncertain or the Believing/Uncertain position
      • 3.2.3The world of the Unknown or the Unknowing position
        • 3.2.3.1Questions
    • 3.3Markers of the Knowing/Certain position
    • 3.4Markers of the Unknowing position
    • 3.5Markers of the Believing/Uncertain position
      • 3.5.1Lexical markers
      • 3.5.2Morphosyntactic markers
    • 3.6Quantitative analysis
  • Notes