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This volume is a collection of 18 papers on the communication of certainty and uncertainty. The first part introduces recent theoretical developments and genera

This volume explores a model of epistemic stance, according to which speakers can communicate each single piece of information either as known/certain or uncert

This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creati

Elastic language is a phenomenon in linguistics that refers to how we stretch the meanings of words, depending on the context in which they are used – for exa

This volume addresses the issue of pragmatic meaning and interpretation in communication contexts regarding health and does so by combining a series of diverse