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• adjacent pairs 165, 170, 210–211

• advice 7, 109–125, 128, 130, 132, 134–135, 137–138, 140, 143–147

• advice giving 7, 109, 111–116, 118, 120, 122, 145–147

• affiliation 119, 233

• agreement 7, 47, 109, 114–116, 119–120, 132, 138, 145, 147, 161, 163–165, 169, 174–175, 180, 197, 204, 216, 220, 226, 241, 245–247, 250, 259, 279

• alignment 2, 5, 113–116, 118–119, 123, 125–126, 164, 175, 197, 202–204, 221, 261, 279

• alternative question/s 67–70, 170, 175, 183

• apparitions 211

• as if 40–41, 43, 65, 78, 123, 134–135, 140–141, 160, 169, 171–172, 175, 181, 195, 198, 202–203, 231, 251, 266, 270

• assertion 27, 69, 119, 144, 155, 163, 183, 266, 270, 282

• as though 12, 64–65, 78, 172

• asymmetry 32–33, 112, 167, 275–276

• Atomic Text 5–6, 8, 11, 23–24, 26–29, 31, 33–36, 39–40, 47–50, 52–53, 55, 280–282

• attuning 128

• belief 2, 36, 60, 64–65, 89, 93, 97, 122, 157–158, 163, 216, 219, 221–222, 224, 233, 237, 244, 258, 275, 283

• Believed 4–6, 8, 64–67, 77, 81, 84–85, 97–98, 103–105, 168, 217, 231, 276–277, 279–280

• Believing position 4, 6, 45, 65, 69–70, 115, 120–124, 126, 128, 130, 134–137, 140–141, 143–144, 166, 168, 170, 175, 180–181, 198, 211, 216, 219–221, 224, 230–235, 240, 244–245, 250, 253, 256, 258–261, 275–276, 283, 285

• believing question/s177

• brain 8, 277, 280

• canonical language 26, 28 certain 1–8, 20, 24, 26, 37–41, 43, 49, 53, 55–61, 63–106, 121–123, 128, 131–132, 134–135, 137–138, 141, 159–160, 165, 168, 170–177, 180–183, 187–189, 196, 202–203, 214, 216, 218–220, 224–226, 228, 231–235, 237, 244–246, 250, 255–259, 261, 268–270, 275–276, 278, 280, 282–283

• certainty 1–7, 20, 24, 37–41, 56–57, 59–61, 63–68, 75, 77–78, 80, 84–91, 93–105, 121–123, 128, 132, 135, 141, 159–160, 170–173, 175, 177, 180–183, 188–189, 196, 202, 214, 219–220, 224–226, 232–234, 245–246, 250, 257–259, 276, 280, 282

• chain of worlds 32, 50–51, 58

• clairvoyant 7, 41, 155–157, 159–160, 163–165, 167–185, 187–190, 193–194, 196–204, 209–211

• cognition 5, 11–13, 20, 29, 36–37, 45, 106, 158, 171, 202

• cognitive access 27, 45, 49, 55, 57, 62

• cognitive process/es 5, 13–15, 21–23, 32, 35, 51, 57, 157, 204, 277

• cognitive reality 11, 17, 19, 159

• commitment 1–4, 6, 26–27, 37, 45, 49, 53, 63, 66, 71, 166, 171, 174, 195, 232, 275, 281

• communication 3–6, 11, 20, 22–29, 36–37, 39–41, 45, 49–51, 60–61, 80, 88, 120, 130, 158, 160–161, 166, 259, 261, 265, 270–272, 274–275, 277–278, 280–281

• conditional mood 77, 92, 115, 135, 172, 219, 240, 245, 250

• conditional question/s 173, 175, 181, 183, 223, 244, 247 confidant/e 113–116, 118, 120–123, 126, 129–130, 132–135, 137, 139–140, 142–143, 145–147

• confidence attitudes 7, 155, 162, 166, 209, 216, 220, 235, 258, 260–261

• confider 113–116, 118–123, 126, 129–130, 133–134, 137, 139–140, 142–143, 145–147

• conflict/s 113, 120, 132, 136, 146–147, 164, 215, 219–220, 233, 260–261, 275–276

• conjectural 38, 79–80, 172–173, 181

• continuum 4, 17, 65, 85, 99–105, 279

• Conversation Analysis 4, 111–112, 167, 271 corpus 4–7, 45–48, 55, 61–62, 67, 71, 79, 83–84, 89, 94, 98, 111, 113, 115–118, 121, 140, 207, 225, 253, 276

• correlate 6, 8, 21, 23–24, 41–43, 280

• correlate-interpretation 6, 24, 41

• counterfactual 79–80

• credible 235, 246, 259–260

• crime cases 7, 41, 155, 157, 160, 210, 213–214

• culprit 235, 238, 240, 246, 258–260

• declarative sentence/s 49, 55, 57–62, 64, 70, 81, 89–90, 92, 97, 101–105, 172–173, 179–180, 232, 257, 266

• deep structure 5, 23, 27, 34–35, 281

• defence lawyer 216, 222–223, 225–226, 229, 236, 238, 241, 249, 255–256

• degrees of reality 19, 21

• deontic 38, 76, 115, 122, 124, 132

• descriptive markers 47

• descriptive proposition 6, 23, 26–30, 32, 35, 40–43, 50, 281

• dialogue 3–4, 6–7, 11, 20–21, 23–24, 28–29, 34, 39, 41, 60, 113, 120–121, 138, 223, 277–278, 280–281

• direct form/s 68, 128, 160, 195, 264–270, 275–276

• direct question/s 78

• disagreement 7, 109, 120, 147, 161, 164–165, 175, 197, 204, 250, 279

• Discourse Analysis 4

• distrust 162–163, 258, 261

• doubts 60, 69, 90–92, 120, 135, 141, 143, 162–164, 173, 182, 186, 203, 214, 219–220, 226, 232, 235, 240–241, 243–247, 255–258, 261

• echo response 128

• Encountered 17–18, 159

• epistemic 1–7, 11, 20, 24, 26, 28, 35–39, 45, 51, 53, 55–56, 59–61, 63–65, 68, 70–71, 76, 79–81, 85–87, 106, 109, 112–115, 118, 120–122, 124–126, 129–130, 132–133, 137–140, 142, 144, 146–147, 155–157, 160–161, 163–175, 179–183, 189, 193, 195, 202–204, 209–211, 213–216, 218, 220, 224–226, 231–232, 235, 240, 244–245, 250, 257–261, 263, 269, 271–276, 278–282, 286

• epistemic authority 7, 155, 167, 175, 180–181, 183, 189, 211, 215, 224

• epistemic contraries 85–86, 106

• epistemic dynamics 5, 175, 278

• epistemic future 38–39, 65, 80

• epistemic gradient 275–276

• epistemicity 3–4, 7, 20, 26, 28, 35, 37, 39, 63, 65, 71, 263, 281–282

• epistemic management 7, 113, 155, 157, 167, 214, 271, 274

• epistemic marker/s 4, 38–39, 45, 132, 278, 286

• epistemic model 7, 263

• epistemic must 65, 76 epistemic negotiation 112–113, 146–147, 167

• epistemic position/s 1, 3–7, 28, 60, 68, 70, 81, 85, 109, 113, 120, 122, 130, 132, 137, 139, 146–147, 164, 166–168, 173, 209, 213, 216, 226, 231–232, 245, 257–261, 269, 273, 278–279, 281

• epistemic primacy 161, 163, 165, 167, 170, 174–175, 272

• epistemic role 7, 121–122, 124–125, 138, 156, 161, 166–169, 171, 183, 193, 204, 209–210, 250, 278

• epistemic stance 1–7, 11, 24, 36, 39, 51, 147, 160, 163–164, 166, 189, 215, 271–274, 278, 280–282

• epistemic status 7, 38, 112, 115, 118, 125, 160–161, 163–166, 169–171, 179, 203–204, 209–210, 215, 250, 271–274, 276, 279

• epistemic world 59, 61

• evidence 7, 36, 117, 135, 171–172, 181, 183, 189, 209–210, 215–216, 218, 225, 228, 231, 233–234, 239–240, 246, 249, 258, 260–261, 264–265

• evidential 3–4, 6–7, 24, 26, 28, 35–36, 38–40, 45, 53, 58–66, 70–71, 79, 238, 263, 265–266, 269–270, 278, 281–282, 286

• evidentiality 3–4, 7, 26, 28, 35–36, 39, 63, 65, 71, 263, 269–270, 281–282

• evidential marker/s 38, 60–62

• experience 5, 7, 11, 14–22, 29, 86–87, 109, 112, 119, 126, 158–164, 170–171, 194–199, 201, 203–205, 209–211, 265–266, 280

• experiential reality 5, 11, 15–17, 19, 20, 85

• experiential content 5, 15, 17, 21–22, 204, 277

• experiential world 5, 15, 59

• extrasensory perception 7, 155, 157–159, 210

• false 6, 19, 24, 37, 40–43, 64, 66, 79, 162, 174, 181, 218, 235, 238, 264, 270, 283

• falsehood 6, 24, 40–41

• falseness 66

• force 8, 12, 16, 26–27, 62, 69, 110–111, 115, 135, 138, 146, 172, 195, 216, 226, 255, 266, 275, 281–282

• function 12–13, 16, 23, 38, 57, 60, 87, 102–103, 115, 118, 128, 132, 138, 171, 173, 218, 233, 264, 266, 282–286

• Gestalt 5, 11–12, 15–16, 20, 23, 157, 278, 281–282

• guilt/guilty 124, 132, 171, 216, 218–220, 225–226, 235, 240–241, 246, 249, 257–261

• Here and Now 3–5, 13–15, 17, 22–23, 26, 28–29, 31–32, 34, 36–37, 39–41, 49–53, 55–57, 59–61, 80, 130, 202, 278, 281

• hostile question/s 233, 235, 245, 261

• hypotheses 19, 25, 43, 170, 183, 216, 229, 233–235, 258, 260–261

• I am certain 37, 63, 90, 101–102

• I am not certain 37, 75, 101–102

• I am uncertain 75

• I believe 4, 17, 35, 54–57, 59, 64–66, 70, 74–76, 90–91, 93, 97–98, 101–102, 104, 109, 115, 162, 202, 204, 224, 234, 243–244, 258–259

• I do not know whether 4, 37, 41, 65, 68, 70, 101–102, 121, 170–172, 231

• I doubt 4, 65–66, 91–92, 97–98, 101–102, 104, 258–260

• If-clause/s 38, 65, 78–79, 90, 92, 115, 123–124, 126, 128, 132, 220

• If-less clause/s 74, 78

• I know 18, 40, 62–63, 69–71, 79–80, 89–90, 92, 94, 97–98, 101–104, 109, 121–122, 130, 171, 201–202, 234, 283

• illocutionary act 6, 27–28, 109–110, 281–282

• illocutionary force 26–27, 69, 281–282

• imperative 111, 115, 119, 122, 124, 138, 266, 270

• indirect form/s 68, 195, 265–266, 268–270, 275–276

• indirect question/s 78

• information 1, 3–4, 6–8, 13, 22–23, 25–29, 36–42, 45, 49, 51, 53, 55–57, 59–67, 69–70, 85, 94, 98, 114, 128, 160–161, 164–170, 172, 174–175, 177, 181, 195–196, 202, 209–211, 215, 218–219, 224, 231, 233, 250, 255, 263–275, 280, 283–284

• informative imbalance 279

• Initiation 114–117, 119–120, 123

• innocence 214–215, 220, 226–228, 234–235, 240–241, 245–246, 250, 255, 258–259, 261

• interaction/s 2, 7, 49, 52, 109, 111–114, 118–119, 136, 146, 156–158, 161–162, 164, 167, 169, 193, 195, 209–210, 214, 216, 225, 233, 259–261, 271–274, 276, 278

• interrogative sentence/s 52, 91, 97, 101–102, 104

• interview/s 7, 155–156, 160, 167–170, 172, 176, 179–180, 185–188, 191–193, 195–198, 201–204, 206–207, 209–211, 214, 221, 225–226, 228, 230–231, 239, 250, 253

• I think 31–32, 35, 37–38, 54–56, 59, 64, 74, 91, 93, 97–98, 101–102, 104, 109, 115, 138, 140, 166, 173, 187–188, 243, 245, 260, 266, 275

• journalist/s 7, 155–157, 160, 165, 167–186, 188–193, 204, 206, 209–210, 214–215, 226, 228–229, 232–237, 243, 245–247, 249–251, 255–256, 258–259, 261

• killer 7, 160, 179–182, 184, 195, 203, 211, 213, 219, 225, 239, 244

• Knowing position 3–4, 63, 66, 69–70, 72, 82–83, 109, 118, 120–126, 128–130, 132–134, 137–138, 140–147, 166, 168, 170–174, 176, 179–182, 184, 190–191, 194, 196–198, 201, 203, 205, 209, 211, 215–216, 218–219, 221, 224–225, 230–234, 236, 239, 241, 243, 245, 250, 257–261, 269–270, 272, 275, 279, 283–286

• knowledge 2, 5, 11, 19, 25, 36, 43, 56–57, 62–64, 106, 112–114, 116, 118–122, 124–125, 138, 145, 157–158, 160–162, 164, 166–167, 169–170, 173, 177, 179, 181, 195–196, 204, 209–211, 215, 218–219, 224, 233–235, 264–266, 268–275

• knowledgeable 2, 112–114, 116, 118–119, 121–122, 124–125, 138, 145, 161, 164, 167, 170, 173, 179, 181, 204, 209, 224, 233, 272, 274–275

• knowledge management 112

• Known 4–6, 11, 40, 61, 63–64, 66–68, 70–73, 81, 84–85, 97, 103–105, 111, 120, 157, 164, 168, 182, 186, 217, 220, 224, 231, 245, 277, 279–280, 284

• KUB model 3–8, 45, 69–70, 79–80, 97–98, 103–105, 120–121, 130, 146, 156, 166–168, 216, 263, 269, 276–278, 280, 285–286

• KUB position/s 8, 175, 182, 198, 203, 279–280, 282

• language 5, 8, 15, 20–21, 25–26, 28, 35, 39, 41, 51, 62, 86, 91, 128, 218, 263, 265–266, 270, 277–280

• levels of reality 5, 8, 11, 15, 21, 157, 195, 197, 277

• lexical markers 38, 47–49, 51–52, 54–62, 64, 70–72, 74, 81, 89–92, 97–98, 103, 105, 115

• linguistic reality 20, 41

• linguistic world 30, 43, 59–60, 63, 85, 277

• markers 3–6, 36, 38–40, 45, 47–49, 51–52, 54–62, 64–65, 70–75, 77, 81, 84, 87–92, 96–98, 103–105, 115, 128, 132, 135, 168, 217, 224, 278–279, 286

• meaning 6, 11, 15–20, 23–25, 29–30, 32, 36, 43, 55, 69–70, 76–77, 80, 89, 122, 124, 173, 179, 188, 195–197, 201, 203, 220, 233, 278, 282

• mind 8, 20–21, 24–25, 54, 57, 71, 128, 140, 144, 160, 178–179, 195, 202, 226, 265, 277–280

• misalignment 5, 114–116, 118–119, 123, 125–126, 164, 197, 202–204, 261, 279

• mitigation 110, 113, 115–116, 118, 132, 183, 275–276, 282 modal verbs 38–39, 75, 77, 115

• modes of knowledge 162

• morphosyntactic markers 6, 45, 55–56, 61, 65, 72, 74, 77, 81, 88, 98, 115, 279

• murder 156, 159–160, 178, 180–182, 184–185, 201, 208, 213–214, 218, 220, 224, 228, 238–240, 259

• negotiation 5, 7, 112–113, 119, 123, 125, 146–147, 156, 161, 167

• Not Knowing Whether position/s 70, 172, 181, 246, 250, 260

• perception 5, 7, 11–13, 19–21, 28–29, 32, 36–37, 45, 57, 59–62, 66, 87, 106, 155, 157–159, 195–197, 202, 210

• perceptual access 42

• perceptual process/es 22, 159

• perceptual reality 12, 17, 159, 278

• performative proposition 6, 26–27, 29–30, 281

• phenomenal reality 15, 18, 21–22

• physical reality 12, 15–16, 18, 21, 277

• physical world 5, 15, 19, 21

• polar question/s 67–68, 143, 173–175, 182–183, 196–198, 202–203, 218, 225, 231, 239, 258–259

• politeness 66, 110, 250, 258, 263, 266, 269–270, 282

• proof 41, 134–135, 162–163, 165, 169, 172, 188, 203–204, 210–211, 217, 225, 228, 233, 238, 240, 249, 259

• propositional content 1, 17, 27, 159, 171, 281–282

• prosecution 213, 223–225, 238–240, 243–244, 246, 249, 257

• psychic practitioner 155, 157, 161–163, 169, 195, 210

• psychological reality 5, 280

• psychological scales 264

• qualitative analysis 4, 6, 45, 47–48, 81, 116, 168, 177, 185, 193, 200, 217, 222, 228, 238, 243, 249

• quantitative analysis 4–7, 45, 81, 84, 176, 183, 189, 198, 204, 206, 221, 226, 236, 241, 247, 251–252

• Reaction 114–118, 121, 123, 135, 218, 220

• reality 5, 8, 11–12, 15–22, 41, 54, 57, 78–79, 85, 136, 138, 157, 159, 195, 197, 277–278, 280

• reference 11, 20–22, 24, 34, 38, 51, 57, 94–95, 103, 116, 168, 173–174, 216, 245, 283

• rejection 118–119, 175

• reliable 134–135, 210–211, 222, 232, 239–240

• reported speech 36, 130, 189, 195

• Represented 6, 17–18, 26–28, 53, 68, 85, 115, 135, 138, 159

• response token 128, 135, 145, 174

• rhetorical question/s 67, 69–70, 78, 115, 128, 132, 201, 203, 230, 234, 236, 243, 258, 286

• scepticism 158, 162–164, 187–188, 201, 203, 205, 209 scope 5–6, 56–57, 81, 84, 130, 168, 217

• semantic interpretation 6, 20, 23–24, 26

• semantic representation 24, 26

• sense 4, 6, 11–12, 14–16, 19–21, 23–27, 36, 39, 41–43, 47, 53, 63–64, 77–80, 85, 110, 123, 131, 158, 169, 175, 178–180, 183, 205, 216, 222, 241, 253, 259, 275, 277–279

• sense-interpretation 25–26, 41

• sentence completion 128

• shift 4, 112, 114, 122, 124, 132, 141, 143, 166, 168, 170, 176, 180–181, 183, 211, 215–216, 218–220, 231, 239, 245, 250, 263, 272, 278 social support 111–112, 147

• source of information 3, 36–37, 51, 53

• source of knowledge 36, 211

• speech act/s 4, 8, 27, 109–112, 114, 116, 138, 233, 277, 280–286

• Speech Act Theory 4, 8, 110, 116, 282 stance 1–7, 11, 17, 22, 24, 28, 35–36, 39, 51–52, 64–65, 78, 101–102, 111, 119–120, 126–128, 131, 135, 147, 155, 157–158, 160, 162–166, 169, 172–174, 189, 204, 215, 231, 240, 244, 261, 264–266, 271–274, 276, 278, 280–282

• stance-taking 2, 36

• subjectivity 38, 59–60, 64, 80, 128, 224

• subjunctive mood 38, 77, 128

• supportive interactions 113

• suppositions 19, 57, 59–60, 177, 180–181, 199, 208, 210, 241, 253, 261

• surface structure 34–35

• tag question/s 67–70, 78, 115, 266–267

• taxonomy 111, 269, 283, 285 territory of information 263–264, 266, 269, 271, 283

• text/s 3–8, 11–12, 15, 20–31, 33–37, 39–43, 45–55, 58–61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 81, 83–84, 98, 109, 111, 113, 121, 124, 157–159, 161, 164, 174–175, 179, 219, 250, 253, 261, 275, 277–278, 280–282

• Text Theory 4, 28

• trans-phenomenal reality 15, 18

• triplet 109, 114, 116–117, 120, 122, 226, 246, 260, 278

• troubles talk 7, 109, 112–113, 119–120, 126, 146–147

• true 4, 19, 25, 32, 36–38, 40–43, 62–65, 79, 124, 134, 162, 172–174, 181, 185, 189, 192, 211, 218, 224–225, 235, 237, 261, 264, 272

• trust 7, 41, 147, 162–163, 204, 209–210, 216, 232, 240, 258, 261

• truth 2–4, 6, 24, 26, 37, 40–42, 49, 63–64, 66, 110, 125, 158, 161, 165, 171–173, 181, 189, 211, 214, 216, 218–219, 264, 282–283

• Turn Constructional Unit (TCU) 34, 166, 196

• typology283

• unbelievable 235, 246 uncertain 3–8, 20, 24, 37–41, 53, 56–57, 59–60, 64–69, 73–80, 82–106, 121, 123, 128, 132, 135, 141, 168, 172–174, 181–182, 225, 231, 269–270, 275–276, 278, 280, 282–283

• uncertain question/s 69, 78, 80

• uncertainty 3–7, 20, 24, 37–41, 56–57, 59–60, 64–68, 75, 77, 80, 84–91, 93–105, 121, 123, 128, 132, 135, 141, 173, 182, 276, 280, 282

• Unknowing position 3–4, 66, 70, 72, 82–83, 109, 120–123, 126, 130, 132, 137–138, 141, 143–145, 147, 166, 170, 172–173, 179, 181, 196–198, 201, 209, 215–216, 233, 258, 269–270, 272, 275, 279, 283–286

• unit of analysis 27, 281

• unknowing question/s 170, 172, 177, 179, 181, 183, 194, 196, 202

• unknowledge 173

• Unknown 4–6, 66–68, 72–73, 81, 84, 157, 164, 168, 217, 224, 277, 279–280, 284

• unsolved crime cases 7, 155, 157

• visions 156, 165, 168, 170–171, 177, 193–195, 197–198, 211

• world-constitutive access 47, 52, 56–57, 61

• world-constitutive marker/s 45, 47–48, 60, 87

• world-constitutive proposition 6, 24, 26, 28–32, 34–36, 42–43, 47, 49–50, 52, 59, 281

• world of the Believed 64–65

• world of the Known 61, 63, 81

• world of the Unknown 66

• yes-no question/s 65, 67, 69, 218, 225, 266, 285