34.3487, Confs: The Concept of Evidentiality and Its Application to Romance
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Subject: 34.3487, Confs: The Concept of Evidentiality and Its Application to Romance
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Date: 18-Nov-2023
From: Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto [clup at letras.up.pt]
Subject: The Concept of Evidentiality and Its Application to Romance
“The concept of evidentiality and its application to Romance” – Profª
Gerda Haßler | 27 de novembro
Date: 27-Nov-2023 - 27-Nov-2023
Location: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Contact: Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto
Contact Email: clup at letras.up.pt
Meeting URL: https://clup.pt/blog/the-concept-of-evidentiality-and-its
-application-to-romance-prof-gerda-hassler/
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
Meeting Description:
Profª Gerda Haßler
Universidade de Potsdam
“The concept of evidentiality and its application to Romance”
Dia 27 de novembro, 15h, Anfiteatro Nobre, FLUP
Abstract:
Defined narrowly, evidentiality pertains to the sources of knowledge
or evidence whereby the speaker feels entitled to make a factual
claim. But evidentiality may also be conceived more broadly as both
providing epistemic justification and reflecting speaker’s attitude
towards the validity of the communicated information, and hearer’s
potential acceptability of the information, derived from the degree of
reliability of the source and mode of access to the information.
Evidentiality and epistemic modality are subcategories of the same
superordinate category, namely a category of epistemicity. Since the
first seminal works on evidentiality (Chafe and Nichols 1986), studies
have for the most part centred on languages where the grammatical
marking of the information source is obligatory (for example Willett
1988; Aikhenvald 2004). Recent years have witnessed a growing interest
in the study of the domain of evidentiality in European languages,
which rely on strategies along the lexico‐grammatical continuum.
Assuming a broad conception of evidentiality and defining it as a
functional category, we study linguistic means that fulfil the
function of indicating the source of information for the transmitted
content of a certain proposition in Romance languages and especially
in Portuguese.
Resumo:
Definido de forma restrita, a evidencialidade refere-se às fontes de
conhecimento ou de prova em que o falante se sente no direito de fazer
uma reivindicação factual. Mas a evidencialidade também pode ser
concebida de forma mais ampla, tanto como uma justificação epistémica,
como um reflexo da atitude do falante relativamente à validade da
informação comunicada e da potencial aceitabilidade da informação por
parte do ouvinte, derivada do grau de fiabilidade da fonte e do modo
de acesso à informação. Evidencialidade e modalidade epistémica são
subcategorias da mesma categoria superordenada, nomeadamente uma de
epistemicidade. Desde os primeiros trabalhos seminais sobre
evidencialidade (CHAFE; NICHOLS, 1986), os estudos têm-se centrado, na
sua maioria, em línguas em que a marcação gramatical da fonte de
informação é obrigatória (por exemplo WILLETT, 1988; AIKHENVALD,
2004). Nos últimos anos, tem-se assistido a um interesse crescente no
estudo do domínio da evidencialidade nas línguas europeias, que se
baseiam em estratégias ao longo do continuum léxico-gramatical.
Assumindo uma conceção ampla da evidência e definindo-a como uma
categoria funcional, estudamos meios linguísticos que cumprem a função
de indicar a fonte de informação para o conteúdo transmitido de uma
determinada proposição, em línguas românicas e, em especial, no
português.
Professor Gerda Haßler is Full Professor for Linguistics and Applied
Linguistics (Romance Studies) at the University of Potsdam, Germany,
and she has been developing very relevant work in Grammar, Applied
Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Lexical
Semantics, Linguistic Semantics, Contrastive Linguistics, Language
Teaching, Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics, History of Science.
Homepage:
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/romanistik-hassler/hassler/person
Presencial: Anfiteatro Nobre
Transmissão via zoom:https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/98959016785?p
wd=SFNEbzkyaXNiQlMrdWFnaTl6YmxEQT09
Senha: 054790
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