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	ix–x
Introduction	1–26
Certainty
Certainty: its conceptual differential in Accessible World Semantics Werner Abraham	29–45
Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian framework Elisabeth Leiss	47–62
(Un)Certainty as attitudinality
Counter-argumentation and modality Vincenzo Lo Cascio	65–82
Explanation as a certainty marker in persuasive dialogue Michel Dufour	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	97–120
The role of subjective certainty in the epistemology of testimony: a contextualist perspective Michel Croce	121–134
Uncertainty in polar questions and certainty in answers? Judit Kleiber and Gábor Alberti	135–152
Lying as a scalar phenomenon: insincerity along the certainty-uncertainty continuum Neri Marsili	153–173
Persuasion pragmatic strategies in L1/L2 Italian argument-ative speech Luisa Salvati	175–182
Dialogical exchange and speech acts
What do I know as yet? Franz Hundsnurscher	185–198
On polar questions, negation, and the syntactic encoding of epistemicity Sibilla Cantarini and Jacopo Torregrossa	199–215
Epistemic uncertainty and the syntax of speech acts Kate E. Judge	217–237
Discursive functions of evidentials and epistemic modals Etsuko Oishi	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	265–284
Latin commitment-markers: scilicet and videlicet Josine Schrickx	285–296
Italian come se “as if” evidential and epistemic aspects Andrzej Zuczkowski, Gianluca Colella, Ilaria Riccioni, Ramona Bongelli and Carla Canestrari	297–323
Applications in exegesis and religious discourse
The communication of certainty/uncertainty within a Gospel passage (John 9:1-41) Lucia Salvato	327–341
Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourse Rosa Scardigno and Giuseppe Mininni	343–362
Subject index	363–365

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

Poggi, Isabella

2017. 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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