31.2782, Books: Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement: Bergqvist, Kittilä (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 21:08:11
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement: Bergqvist, Kittilä (eds.)

 


Title: Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement 
Series Title: Studies in Diversity Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/261 


Editor: Henrik Bergqvist
Editor: Seppo Kittilä

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961102693 Pages: 302 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a
number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly
related to well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is
therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking
systems in lesser-documented languages from the Americas, Papua New Guinea,
and Central Asia from the perspective of language description and
cross-linguistic comparison. As the title of the volume suggests, part of this
exploration consists of situating already established notions (such as
evidentiality) with the diversity of systems found in individual languages.
Epistemic forms that feature in the present volume include ones that signal
how speakers claim knowledge based on perceptual-cognitive access
(evidentials); the speaker’s involvement as a basis for claiming epistemic
authority (egophorics); the distribution of knowledge between the
speech-participants where the speaker signals assumptions about the
addressee’s knowledge of an event as either shared, or non-shared with the
speaker (engagement marking).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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