Epistemic Stance in Dialogue: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing
Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli and Ilaria Riccioni
[Dialogue Studies, 29] 2017. xiii, 311 pp.
Ilaria Riccioni
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ilaria Riccioni plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Cognition and language | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts
Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari
[Dialogue Studies, 25] 2014. vii, 413 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2024 ‘The benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks… they say’: Italian Facebook users’ comments on the AstraZeneca vaccine suspension Online Health Communication: Expert and Lay Dialogic Practices, Tereszkiewicz, Anna and Magdalena Szczyrbak (eds.), pp. 297–331 | Article
This study aims to analyse Italian Internet users’ comments on two posts that appeared on the Facebook page of the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera during a particularly critical phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (specifically, March 2021). At that time, the AstraZeneca vaccine had been… read more
2020 Demonstrative questions and epistemic authority management in medium-sitter interactions: Some examples from an Italian “public mediumship demonstration” Language and Dialogue 10:2, pp. 215–240 | Article
Although paranormal experiences have been broadly investigated, medium-sitter interactions have been studied much less. In this article, five excerpts from an Italian “public mediumship demonstration” are presented with the main aim to answer the following research questions: (1) what are the… read more
2014 BioUncertainty: A historical corpus evaluating uncertainty language over a 167-year span of biomedical scientific articles Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.), pp. 309–339 | Article
The communication of the uncertainty of a scientific finding largely determines whether that information will be translated to practice. Unfortunately, however, our ability to study these phenomena is restrained since existing uncertainty corpora are limited in their number of full text articles… read more
2014 Italian come se “as if”: evidential and epistemic aspects Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 297–323 | Article
The aim of this paper was to analyze the 109 occurrences of Italian come se “as if” in a homogenous written corpus of 780 texts, with the aim to highlight the implied evidential and epistemic aspects, not yet explicitly studied in the pertinent literature. We used an interdisciplinary approach… read more
2014 Preface Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Preface
2014 Epistemic stance: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing (KUB) positions Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.), pp. 115–136 | Article
In this study, we compare three approaches to epistemic stance: Akio Kamio’s Theory of Territories of Information (intended as a bridge between evidentiality and politeness) and his distinction between direct and indirect forms of utterances; John Heritage’s differentiation between epistemic status… read more
2013 Negotiating narrative: Dialogic dynamics of Known, Unknown and Believed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Literary Linguistics, Müller-Wood, Anja (ed.), pp. 7–33 | Article
Within the framework of KUB Theory (Bongelli and Zuczkowski 2008, Zuczkowski et al. 2011), information communicated verbally can ultimately be reduced to one of three categories: what the speaker knows (Known), what the speaker does not know (Unknown) and what the speaker believes (Believed).… read more
2013 The communication of certainty and uncertainty in Italian political media discourses The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 125–165 | Article
In the present study we analysed the lexical and morphosyntactic markers that communicate Certainty or Uncertainty and their pragmatic functions, in a corpus of contemporary Italian political discourses, both speeches and dialogues broadcast on television. The exemplary analysis of two speeches… read more
2012 Chapter 18. Polyphony in interior monologues Spaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 265–278 | Chapter
Following the definition of ‘interior monologue’ (IM) given by Edouard Dujardin (1931), we analysed a corpus of novels (by Schnitzler, Joyce, Dostoevsky, Pirandello) in which this literary technique is used. We discovered that, although one of the conventional meanings of monologue is ‘discourse… read more