Publications
Publication details [#3180]
Falkenberg, Gabriel. 1981. Epistemische Operatoren und illokutionäre Kraft. In Hindelang, Götz and Werner Zillig, eds. Sprache: Verstehen und Handeln: Akten des 15. linguistischen Kolloquiums, Münster 1980, Band 2. Niemeyer. pp. 193–206. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
German
Keywords
Annotation
This investigation deals with expressions like 'It seems to me that', 'I believe that', 'I am sure that' which are called 'epistemic qualifiers'. It is argued that epistemic qualifiers may be used to modify the illocutionary force of speech acts.