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Authors: Werner Abraham
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-29 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of knowledge and belief of the addressee wit
Modality and Theory of Mind Elements Across Languages
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: Werner Abraham
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Modes of Modality
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Authors: Elisabeth Leiss
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of
Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles
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This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number
Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between
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The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialog