Eirian C. Davies
List of John Benjamins publications for which Eirian C. Davies plays a role.
2019 Textual analysis: Why do it, and where does it take you? On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry, Fontaine, Lise, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 43–48 | Article
2017 The significance of theme Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse, Vandelanotte, Lieven, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems (eds.), pp. 298–322 | Article
This paper explores the area of mismatches between the grammatical semantics of definite NPs and equivalent features actually operative in common ground in a given context of utterance. It does so with a view to examining the provision for accounting for their significance in terms of a Prague… read more
2012 May, might and degrees of positivity in four English sentence types English Text Construction 5:2, pp. 230–264 | Article
This paper develops the framework of telling and knowledge operators earlier proposed for distinctions of mood and sentence types in the lexical verb (Davies 2006) to apply to non-inferential epistemic modal verbs. It consists of two parts: the first offers some background to the approach and sets… read more
2009 Review of Fiengo (2007): Asking questions: Using meaningful structures to imply ignorance Evidentiality in language and cognition, Ekberg, Lena and Carita Paradis (eds.), pp. 135–148 | Review
2007 M.A.K. Halliday, revised by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen. An introduction to functional grammar. Functions of Language 14:2, pp. 303–315 | Miscellaneous
2007 Problems in NP structure: An example from British tabloid journalism Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. 205–216 | Article
This paper considers a textual example of the nominal group found in a British tabloid daily newspaper (The Sun), with a view to examining how far two standard treatments of nominal group/noun phrase structure, directed at a student readership, account for the pattern of pre-modification found in… read more
2006 Speaking, telling and assertion: Interrogatives and mood in English Functions of Language 13:2, pp. 151–196 | Article
This paper distinguishes between speaking, telling and assertion. Speaking is approached in ‘mechanical’ terms, as the production of linguistic forms. Telling is defined in terms of the degree of the speaker’s commitment to what s/he says, and, therefore, as operative both with respect to… read more
2001 Propositional attitudes Aspects of “Interpersonal Grammar”: Grounding, modality, and evidentiality, Davidse, Kristin and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (eds.), pp. 217–250 | Article
This paper attempts to outline a model for the semantic interpretation of mood and modality in constructions of knowledge or belief, as realized in the finite verb in English. It does so in terms of the attitude(s) which the speaker is seen as presenting him/herself to hold towards the proposition… read more