Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A Description of Its Interactional Functions, with a Focus on I Think
(Book #115 in the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Series)
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This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1588114449
ISBN13:9781588114440
Release Date:December 2003
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
Length:213 Pages
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