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| ISBN: | 9789027298126
9027298122
9781588110336
1588110338
9789027251060
9027251061
1282162462
9781282162464
1588110338
9027251061
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and grammatical factors that motivate the adoption of an 'epistemological stance' -- a concept that owes much to recent trends in Cognitive Linguistics. The patterns of evidential strategies found in the three languages provide a fine illustration of the balancing act between speakers' expressions of their.
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| Other form: | Print version: Mushin, Ilana. Evidentiality and epistemological stance. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2001
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