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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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton
2012
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| Colección: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b24462123*spi |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | xvii, 373 p. : il. ; 24 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice |
| ISBN: | 9783110204384 |
