Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

Editors

Sibilla Cantarini | University of Verona

Werner Abraham | University of Vienna & Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

Elisabeth Leiss | Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

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The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the communication of certainty and uncertainty from different scientific fields, theoretical approaches and perspectives, this compendium of state-of-the-art research papers provides both an interdisciplinary comparison of the latest investigations, methods and findings, and new advances and theoretical insights with a common focus on human communication.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.165

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. ix–x

Introduction | pp. 1–26

Certainty: the conceptual differential

Certainty: its conceptual differential in Accessible World Semantics

Werner Abraham | pp. 29–45

Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian framework

Elisabeth Leiss | pp. 47–62

(Un)Certainty as attitudinality

Counter-argumentation and modality

Vincenzo Lo Cascio | pp. 65–82

Explanation as a certainty marker in persuasive dialogue

Michel Dufour | pp. 83–95

How to deal with attitude strength in debating situations. A survey on forewarning, argument strength, repetition, and source credibility as mediators of uncertainty

Manuele De Conti | pp. 97–120

The role of subjective certainty in the epistemology of testimony: a contextualist perspective

Michel Croce | pp. 121–134

Uncertainty in polar questions and certainty in answers?

Judit Kleiber and Gábor Alberti | pp. 135–152

Lying as a scalar phenomenon: insincerity along the certainty-uncertainty continuum

Neri Marsili | pp. 153–173

Persuasion pragmatic strategies in L1/L2 Italian argument-ative speech

Luisa Salvati | pp. 175–182

Dialogical exchange and speech acts

What do I know as yet?

Franz Hundsnurscher | pp. 185–198

On polar questions, negation, and the syntactic encoding of epistemicity

Sibilla Cantarini and Jacopo Torregrossa | pp. 199–215

Epistemic uncertainty and the syntax of speech acts

Kate E. Judge | pp. 217–237

Discursive functions of evidentials and epistemic modals

Etsuko Oishi | pp. 239–262

Onomasiology

Vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation. Cognitive and lexical aspects in English, Swedish, and Italian

Jens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Isabella Poggi, Laura Vincze and Francesca D’Errico | pp. 265–284

Latin commitment-markers: scilicet and videlicet

Josine Schrickx | pp. 285–296

Italian come se “as if”: evidential and epistemic aspects

Andrzej Zuczkowski, Gianluca Colella, Ilaria Riccioni, Ramona Bongelli and Carla Canestrari | pp. 297–323

Applications in exegesis and religious discourse

The communication of certainty/uncertainty within a Gospel passage (John 9:1-41)

Lucia Salvato | pp. 327–341

Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourse

Rosa Scardigno and Giuseppe Mininni | pp. 343–362

Subject index | pp. 363–365

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Alberti, Gábor, Mónika Dóla, Eszter Kárpáti, Judit Kleiber, Anna Szeteli & Anita Viszket

2019. Kérdéses világaink. Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat 6:2 ► pp. 11 ff.

Gärtner, Julia, Kristin Bührig & Sigrid Harendza

2023. Chapter 15. On indicating and dealing with uncertainty in healthcare dialogues. In A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 338], ► pp. 359 ff.

Poggi, Isabella

2017. Chapter 10. The “seeds” of charisma. In Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres [Argumentation in Context, 14], ► pp. 264 ff.

Scardigno, Rosa, Ignazio Grattagliano, Amelia Manuti & Giuseppe Mininni

2020. The Discursive Construction of Certainty and Uncertainty in the Scientific Texts of Forensic Psychiatry. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 7:1

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