Evidentiality in the discourse. Setting boundaries
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Aug 10, 2020
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discourse, source of information, codification, linguistiques, semantics.
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Despite the extensive search that has been done on the phenomenon of evidentiality in the discourse, i.e. the coding of the information source, there are still terminological and conceptual discrepancies that need to be laid out. The present paper presents a theoretical framework of evidentiality. It starts with an examination of the scope of evidentiality in terms of grammar and semantics, ending up with a full understanding of the notion as a functional-conceptual domain. The discussion also focuses on the relationship between evidentiality and epistemic modality since this is still an open-ended issue in the field. We support that a thorough study of particular evidential forms, such as reportative evidential, would be needed as a vibrant continuation of this theoretical revision
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Mañoso-Pacheco, L., Sánchez-Cabrero, R., Arigita-García, A., & Pericacho-Gómez, F. J. (2020). Evidentiality in the discourse. Setting boundaries. Quaestiones Disputatae: Temas En Debate, 13(26), 58-77. Retrieved from http://revistas.ustatunja.edu.co/index.php/qdisputatae/article/view/2008
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Ifantidou, E. (2001). Evidentials and Relevance. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Jakobson, R. (1957). Shifters, verbal categories, and the Russian verb. Harvard University: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
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Mañoso-Pacheco, L. and Juárez-Escribano, B. (2019). Reportive evidentiality. A theoretical revision. Revista Inclusiones 6(4). 189-206.
Marín-Arrese, J. (ed.) (2004). Perspectives on Evidentiality and Modality. Madrid: Editorial Complutense.
Marín-Arrese, J. et al. (eds) (2017). Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages. Discourse-pragmatic perspectives. Bern: Peter Lang.
Matlock, T. (1989). Metaphor and the grammaticalization of evidentials. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 15. 215-225.
Mithun, M. (1986). Evidential diachrony in Northern Iroquoian. In Wallace C. and J. Nichols (eds.), Evidentiality: The linguistic coding of epistemology, 89-112. Norwood: Ablex.
Nuyts, J. (2001). Subjectivity as an evidential dimension in epistemic modal expressions. Journal of Pragmatics 33. 383-400.
Palmer, F. (2001). Mood and Modality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Palmer, F. (1990). Modality and the English Modals. London and New York: Longman.
Plungian, V. (2001). The place of evidentiality within the universal grammatical space. Journal of Pragmatics 33. 349-57.
Przyjemski, K. (2017). Strong Epistemic Possibility and Evidentiality. Topoi 36(1). 183-195.
Roseano, P. et al. (2016). Communicating epistemic stance: how speech and gesture patterns reflect epistemicity and evidentiality. Discourse Process 53(3). 135-74.
San Roque, L., and S. I. Floyd (2017). Evidentiality and interrogativity. Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics 186/187. 120-143.
Sapir, E. (1921). Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Speas, P. (2004). Evidential paradigms, world variables and person agreement features. The Italian Journal of Linguistics 16(1).
Squartini, M. (2008). Lexical vs. grammatical evidentiality in French and Italian. Linguistics 46-5 (2008). 917-947.
The Guardian (19/02/2014). Concerns over chemicals in food packaging misplaced, say scientists. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/19/chemicals-food-packaging-scientists (accessed 05-03-2014)
Tournadre, N. and R. LaPolla (2014). Towards a new approach to evidentiality: Issues and directions for research. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37(2). 240-263.
Van der Auwera, J., and V. Plungian (1998). Modality's semantic map. Linguistic Typology 2. 79-124
Vet, C. (1988). Book review of Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols, 1986. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 33. 65-77.
Vliegen, M. (2011). ‘Evidentiality. Dutch 'seem' and 'appear' verbs: 'blijken', 'lijken', 'schijnen'’. Linguistics in the Netherlands 28. 125-137.
Willett, T. (1988). A cross-linguistic survey of the grammaticization of evidentiality. Studies in Language 12. 51-97.
Yang, L. (2014). Evidentiality in English Research Articles of Applied Linguistics: From the Perspective of Metadiscourse. Journal of Language Teaching and Research 5(3). 581-591.
Aikhenvald, A. (2006). Evidentiality in grammar. In K. Brown (eds.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 4. 320-325. Oxford: Elsevier.
Aikhenvald, A. (2015). Evidentials: Their links with other grammatical categories. Linguistic Typology 19(2). 239-277.
Aikhenvald, A. (2018). Evidentiality and language contact. In Aikhenvald, A. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality, 148-172. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anderson, L. (1986). Evidentials, paths of change, and mental maps: Typologically regular asymmetries. In Chafe, W., J. Nichols (eds.), Evidentiality: The Linguistic Encoding of Epistemology, 273-312. Norwood: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Ballesteros, A. (2004). Evidence, truth, and power in the speeches of the XVII century in Britain. In Marín-Arrese, J. (ed.) Perspectives on Evidentiality and Modality, 79-95. Madrid: Editorial Complutense.
Barrios, M. J. (2017). The Combination of Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality in Spanish. The Use of Probability Markers and Cognitive Verbs to Express Uncertainty. In Marín-Arrese, J. et al. (eds). (2017). Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages. Discourse-pragmatic perspectives, 335-370. Bern: Peter Lang.
Boas, F. (1938). Language. In Boas, F. (ed.) General anthropology 124–145. Boston and New York: D. C. Heath.
Boye, K. and P. Harder. (2009). Evidentiality: Linguistic categories and grammaticalization. Functions of Language 16. 9-43.
Boye, K. (2012). Epistemic Meaning: A Crosslinguistic and Functional-Cognitive Study. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
Brugman, C. and M. Macaulay. (2015). Characterizing evidentiality. Linguistic Typology 19(2). 201-237.
Bybee, J, Perkins, R., and W. Pagliuca (1994). The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Carretero, M. and J. R. Zamorano-Mansilla. (2016). Evidentiality as conversational implicature: Implications for corpus annotation. Social and Behavioral Sciences 212. 146-150.
Chafe, W. (1986). Evidentiality in English conversation and academic writing. In Chafe, W., J. Nichols (eds.), Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology, 261-272. Norwood: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Chafe, W., and J. Nichols (eds.) (1986). Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology. Norwood: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Chojnicka, J. (2012). Reportive evidentiality and reported speech: is there a boundary? Evidence of the Latvian oblique. In Usonienė, A., N. Nau and I. Dabašinskienė (eds.) Multiple Perspectives in Linguistic Research on Baltic Languages, 170–192. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Coates, J. (1983). The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries. London: Croom Helm.
Cornillie, B. (2009). Evidentiality and epistemic modality: On the close relationship of two different categories. Functions of Language. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins 16(1). 44-62.
Cornillie, B., Marín-Arrese, J. and B. Wiemer. (2015). Evidentiality and the semantics-pragmatics interface. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 29. 1-17.
De Haan, F. (1999). Evidentiality and epistemic modality: Setting boundaries. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 18. 83-101.
Delancey, S. (2001). The mirative and evidentiality. Journal of Pragmatics 33. 369-382.
Dendale, P. and L. Tasmowski. (2001). Introduction: evidentiality and related notions. Journal of Pragmatics 33. 339–348.
Donabédian, A. (2001). Toward a semasiological account of evidentials: An enounciative approach of –er in modern western. Journal of Pragmatics 33. 421-42.
Faller, M. (2002). Semantics and pragmatics of evidentials in Cuzco Quechua. Stanford, CA dissertation.
Fetzer, A. and O. Etsuko. (2014). Evidentiality in discourse. Intercultural Pragmatics 11(3). 321-332.
Fitneva, S. (2001). Epistemic marking and reliability judgments: Evidence from Bulgarian. Journal of Pragmatics 33. 401-420.
Floyd, R. (1996). Experience, certainty, and control, and the direct evidential in Wanka Quechua questions. Functions of language 3, 1. 69-93
González, M. et al. (2017). Epistemic and evidential marking in discourse: Effects of register and debatability. Lingua 186/187. 68-87.
Guentchéva, Z. (ed.). (1996). L’Énonciation Médiatisée. Louvain : Peeters.
Hansson, S. O. 2018. How to reconcile the multiculturalist and universalist approaches to science education. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 13(2). 517-523.
Hirschová, M. (2013). Sentence adverbials and evidentiality. Research in Language 11(2). 131-140.
Ifantidou, E. (2001). Evidentials and Relevance. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Jakobson, R. (1957). Shifters, verbal categories, and the Russian verb. Harvard University: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Lazard, G. (2001). On the grammaticalization of evidentiality. Journal of Pragmatics 33. 359-67.
Liu, Z. (2016). Evidentials in Chinese. International Journal of Linguistics 8(2). Retrieved from http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijl/article/view/8959 (accessed 04-11-2018).
Mañoso-Pacheco, L. and Juárez-Escribano, B. (2019). Reportive evidentiality. A theoretical revision. Revista Inclusiones 6(4). 189-206.
Marín-Arrese, J. (ed.) (2004). Perspectives on Evidentiality and Modality. Madrid: Editorial Complutense.
Marín-Arrese, J. et al. (eds) (2017). Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages. Discourse-pragmatic perspectives. Bern: Peter Lang.
Matlock, T. (1989). Metaphor and the grammaticalization of evidentials. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 15. 215-225.
Mithun, M. (1986). Evidential diachrony in Northern Iroquoian. In Wallace C. and J. Nichols (eds.), Evidentiality: The linguistic coding of epistemology, 89-112. Norwood: Ablex.
Nuyts, J. (2001). Subjectivity as an evidential dimension in epistemic modal expressions. Journal of Pragmatics 33. 383-400.
Palmer, F. (2001). Mood and Modality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Palmer, F. (1990). Modality and the English Modals. London and New York: Longman.
Plungian, V. (2001). The place of evidentiality within the universal grammatical space. Journal of Pragmatics 33. 349-57.
Przyjemski, K. (2017). Strong Epistemic Possibility and Evidentiality. Topoi 36(1). 183-195.
Roseano, P. et al. (2016). Communicating epistemic stance: how speech and gesture patterns reflect epistemicity and evidentiality. Discourse Process 53(3). 135-74.
San Roque, L., and S. I. Floyd (2017). Evidentiality and interrogativity. Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics 186/187. 120-143.
Sapir, E. (1921). Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Speas, P. (2004). Evidential paradigms, world variables and person agreement features. The Italian Journal of Linguistics 16(1).
Squartini, M. (2008). Lexical vs. grammatical evidentiality in French and Italian. Linguistics 46-5 (2008). 917-947.
The Guardian (19/02/2014). Concerns over chemicals in food packaging misplaced, say scientists. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/19/chemicals-food-packaging-scientists (accessed 05-03-2014)
Tournadre, N. and R. LaPolla (2014). Towards a new approach to evidentiality: Issues and directions for research. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37(2). 240-263.
Van der Auwera, J., and V. Plungian (1998). Modality's semantic map. Linguistic Typology 2. 79-124
Vet, C. (1988). Book review of Wallace Chafe and Johanna Nichols, 1986. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 33. 65-77.
Vliegen, M. (2011). ‘Evidentiality. Dutch 'seem' and 'appear' verbs: 'blijken', 'lijken', 'schijnen'’. Linguistics in the Netherlands 28. 125-137.
Willett, T. (1988). A cross-linguistic survey of the grammaticization of evidentiality. Studies in Language 12. 51-97.
Yang, L. (2014). Evidentiality in English Research Articles of Applied Linguistics: From the Perspective of Metadiscourse. Journal of Language Teaching and Research 5(3). 581-591.