Epistemic meaning a cross-linguistic and cognitive study
This book deals with epistemic expressions: the linguistic means we have for expressing our degree of certainty about and our type of evidence for propositions about the world. It presents a cross-linguistic study of such expressions and demonstrates that they behave in a way that can be described i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton
2012
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| Series: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991000843129708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
| Summary: | This book deals with epistemic expressions: the linguistic means we have for expressing our degree of certainty about and our type of evidence for propositions about the world. It presents a cross-linguistic study of such expressions and demonstrates that they behave in a way that can be described in terms of a coherent but complex meaning domain. In order to account for this behaviour the book proposes to analyse epistemic meaning in terms of a coherent but complex cognitive structure which is bound up with our cognitive capacity for relating our conception of the world to the world. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 373 p. : il. ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice |
| ISBN: | 9783110204384 |
