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Publication details [#53151]

Gerner, Matthias. 2010. The fuzzy logic of socialised attitudes in Liangshan Nuosu. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (11) : 3031–3046.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This study discusses how in Liangshan Nuosu (Tibeto-Burmanin in the P.R. China) two cross-linguistically singular attitude particles attribute wishes and fears to an impersonal socialised agent that serves as speaker-hedge. The linguistic properties of these particles not addressed by Potts' features of expressive content are worked out via a fuzzy logic.