Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 4:1 (2014)
Editor
| Macerata, Italy
[Language and Dialogue, 4:1] 2014. v, 162 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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PrefaceAndrzej Zuczkowski | pp. 1–6
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Certainty, uncertainty and unexpectedness in English and French: Towards a redefinition of the epistemic stanceAgnès Celle and Laure Lansari | pp. 7–23
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The epistemic side of retrospective utterancesChristine Paul | pp. 24–41
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Probability and certainty markers in French and in Spanish (sans doute / sin duda)Elisabeth Miche and Clara Ubaldina Lorda | pp. 42–57
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I haven’t spoken to him about it: Evidentiality in White House press briefingsChristoph Schubert | pp. 58–75
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Obama said it: Quoting as an evidential strategy in online discussion forumsElisabeth Reber | pp. 76–92
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The risks of uncertainty: Hedging strategies in rape trial discourseDiane Ponterotto | pp. 93–111
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The dialogic construction of certainty in legal contextsGiuseppe Mininni, Rosa Scardigno and Ignazio Grattagliano | pp. 112–131
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Evidential and epistemic strategies in Romanian parliamentary debatesMihaela-Viorica Constantinescu | pp. 132–148
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Strategic uses of certainty and uncertainty in a political debateLiliana Ionescu-Ruxandoiu | pp. 149–162
Articles
Subjects
Communication Studies
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN015000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric