In:Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between
Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
[Studies in Language Companion Series 165] 2014
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 14 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.165.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Certainty: the conceptual differential
Certainty: its conceptual differential in Accessible World Semantics
Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian framework
(Un)Certainty as attitudinality
Counter-argumentation and modality
Explanation as a certainty marker in persuasive dialogue
How to deal with attitude strength in debating situations. A survey on forewarning, argument strength, repetition, and source credibility as mediators of uncertainty
The role of subjective certainty in the epistemology of testimony: a contextualist perspective
Uncertainty in polar questions and certainty in answers?
Lying as a scalar phenomenon: insincerity along the certainty-uncertainty continuum
Persuasion pragmatic strategies in L1/L2 Italian argument-ative speech
Dialogical exchange and speech acts
What do I know as yet?
On polar questions, negation, and the syntactic encoding of epistemicity
Epistemic uncertainty and the syntax of speech acts
Discursive functions of evidentials and epistemic modals
Onomasiology
Vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation. Cognitive and lexical aspects in English, Swedish, and Italian
Latin commitment-markers: scilicet and videlicet
Italian come se “as if”: evidential and epistemic aspects
Applications in exegesis and religious discourse
The communication of certainty/uncertainty within a Gospel passage (John 9:1-41)
Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourse
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