Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 4:1 (2014)

Editor

Andrzej Zuczkowski | Macerata, Italy

[Language and Dialogue, 4:1] 2014. v, 162 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.4.1

Table of Contents

Preface Andrzej Zuczkowski	1–6
Articles
Certainty, uncertainty and unexpectedness in English and French: Towards a redefinition of the epistemic stance Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari	7–23
The epistemic side of retrospective utterances Christine Paul	24–41
Probability and certainty markers in French and in Spanish (sans doute / sin duda) Elisabeth Miche and Clara Ubaldina Lorda	42–57
I haven’t spoken to him about it: Evidentiality in White House press briefings Christoph Schubert	58–75
Obama said it: Quoting as an evidential strategy in online discussion forums Elisabeth Reber	76–92
The risks of uncertainty: Hedging strategies in rape trial discourse Diane Ponterotto	93–111
The dialogic construction of certainty in legal contexts Giuseppe Mininni, Rosa Scardigno and Ignazio Grattagliano	112–131
Evidential and epistemic strategies in Romanian parliamentary debates Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu	132–148
Strategic uses of certainty and uncertainty in a political debate Liliana Ruxandoiu	149–162

Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Discourse studies

Applied linguistics

Dialogue studies

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN015000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric