Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between
Editors
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
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. ix–x
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Introduction | pp. 1–26
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Certainty: the conceptual differential
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Certainty: its conceptual differential in Accessible World SemanticsWerner Abraham | pp. 29–45
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Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian frameworkElisabeth Leiss | pp. 47–62
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(Un)Certainty as attitudinality
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Counter-argumentation and modalityVincenzo Lo Cascio | pp. 65–82
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Explanation as a certainty marker in persuasive dialogueMichel Dufour | pp. 83–95
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How to deal with attitude strength in debating situations. A survey on forewarning, argument strength, repetition, and source credibility as mediators of uncertaintyManuele De Conti | pp. 97–120
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The role of subjective certainty in the epistemology of testimony: a contextualist perspectiveMichel Croce | pp. 121–134
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Uncertainty in polar questions and certainty in answers?Judit Kleiber and Gábor Alberti | pp. 135–152
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Lying as a scalar phenomenon: insincerity along the certainty-uncertainty continuumNeri Marsili | pp. 153–173
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Persuasion pragmatic strategies in L1/L2 Italian argument-ative speechLuisa Salvati | pp. 175–182
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Dialogical exchange and speech acts
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What do I know as yet?Franz Hundsnurscher | pp. 185–198
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On polar questions, negation, and the syntactic encoding of epistemicitySibilla Cantarini and Jacopo Torregrossa | pp. 199–215
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Epistemic uncertainty and the syntax of speech actsKate E. Judge | pp. 217–237
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Discursive functions of evidentials and epistemic modalsEtsuko Oishi | pp. 239–262
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Onomasiology
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Vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation. Cognitive and lexical aspects in English, Swedish, and ItalianJens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Isabella Poggi, Laura Vincze and Francesca D’Errico | pp. 265–284
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Latin commitment-markers: scilicet and videlicetJosine Schrickx | pp. 285–296
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Italian come se “as if”: evidential and epistemic aspectsAndrzej Zuczkowski, Gianluca Colella, Ilaria Riccioni, Ramona Bongelli and Carla Canestrari | pp. 297–323
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Applications in exegesis and religious discourse
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The communication of certainty/uncertainty within a Gospel passage (John 9:1-41)Lucia Salvato | pp. 327–341
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Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourseRosa Scardigno and Giuseppe Mininni | pp. 343–362
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Subject index | pp. 363–365
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Subjects & Metadata
Philosophy
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General