Ylva Biri
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ylva Biri plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 2. Personal conviction against general knowledge: Epistemic commitment in online discussions of climate change Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses, Nevala, Minna and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 14–38 | Chapter
This study analyses the functions of I know and we know in online discussions of climate change. These phrases locate the writer through the first-person pronouns and indicate epistemic certainty through the private verb know. The constructions are analysed in a corpus of climate change-related… read more
2022 Epistemic stance in the climate change debate: A comparison of proponents and sceptics on Twitter and Reddit Register and social media, Clarke, Isobelle and Jack Grieve (eds.), pp. 232–262 | Article
This study analyses epistemic stance in social media climate change discussions, contributing to our understanding of how factuality and likelihood are evaluated in climate change discourse. Using a corpus of 1.2 million words, the paper compares the frequencies of epistemic stance in climate… read more