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Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres
Edited by Carolina Figueras Bates and Adrián Cabedo
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 290] 2018
► pp. 1–24

Chapter 1
Evidentiality in discourse

| University of Valencia. Val.Es.Co Research Group
| University of Barcelona
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The domain of evidentiality
    • 2.1Evidentials in discourse
  • 3.Evidentiality and discourse genre: Pragmatic overtones
  • 4.Presenting the chapters
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 July 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.290.01cab
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