Exploring evidentiality in Spanish Biology articles (1850–1920)
Intersubjectivity and accessibility of evidences
Dorota Kotwica | University of Valencia. Val.Es.Co Research Group
This article examines the expression of evidentiality in scientific articles taking as a starting point the concept of access to the evidence, which is closely related to, albeit not equal with, intersubjectivity. Combining data from the existing theoretical background and corpus analysis, I classify the criteria for distinguishing shared from non-shared evidences within the traditional typology of evidential meanings. The analysis of a corpus of Spanish Biology articles (1850–1920) reveals the relevance of shared evidential constructions in this type of discourse and shows that the accessibility is especially linked to indirect evidential constructions.
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