In:Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure
Viviana Masia
[Advances in Interaction Studies 9] 2017
► pp. 51–80
Chapter 3Sociobiological perspectives
For a unified account of evidentiality and information structure
Published online: 16 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.9.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.9.c3
Article outline
- 3.1Preamble
- 3.2Evidence, territory of knowledge, epistemic statuses and epistemic stances
- 3.3Evidentiality in the world’s languages: Information source and speaker’s attitude
- 3.3.1Information source evidentiality
- 3.3.2Speaker attitude evidentiality
- 3.4Evidentiality and information structure
- 3.4.1Epistemic stances and the evidential values encoded by IS units
- 3.4.1.1Assertion, focus and personal experience evidentiality
- 3.4.1.2Presupposition, topic and factual evidentiality
- 3.4.1Epistemic stances and the evidential values encoded by IS units
- 3.5Closure
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