Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

✍ Scribed by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 378
Series: Studies in Language Companion Series 165
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the communication of certainty and uncertainty from different scientific fields, theoretical approaches and perspectives, this compendium of state-of-the-art research papers provides both an interdisciplinary comparison of the latest investigations, methods and findings, and new advances and theoretical insights with a common focus on human communication.

✦ Table of Contents

Werner Abraham, Sibilla Cantarini & Elisabeth Leiss: Introduction

1 Certainty: The conceptual differential
Werner Abraham: Certainty. Its conceptual differential
Elisabeth Leiss: Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian framework

2 (Un)Certainty as attitudinality
Vincenzo Lo Cascio: Counter-argumentation and modality
Michel Dufour: Explanation as a certainty marker in persuasive dialogue
Manuele De Conti: How to deal with attitude strengt in debating situations. A survey on forewarning, argument strength,
repetition, and source credibility as mediators
of uncertainty
Michel Croce: The role of subjective certainty in the epistemology of testimony. A contextualist perspective
Judit Kleiber & Gábor Alberti: Uncertainty in polar questions and certainty in answers?
Neri Marsili: Lying as a scalar phenomenon. Insincerity along the certainty-uncertainty continuum
Luisa Salvati: Persuasion pragmatic strategies in L1/L2 Italian argumentative speech

3 Dialogical exchange and speech acts
Franz Hundsnurscher: What do I know as yet?
Sibilla Cantarini & Jacopo Torregrossa: On polar questions, negation, and the syntactic encoding of epistemicity
Kate E. Judge: Epistemic uncertainty and the syntax of speech acts
Etsuko Oishi: Discursive functions of evidentials and epistemic modals

4 Onomasiology
Jens Allwood, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Isabella Poggi, Laura Vincze & Francesca D’Errico: Vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation. Cognitive and lexical aspects in English, Swedish,
and Italian
Josine Schrickx: Latin commitment-markers. Scilicet and videlicet
Andrzej Zuczkowski, Gianluca Colella, Ilaria Riccioni, Ramona Bongelli & Carla Canestrari: Italian come se “as if”: Evidential and epistemic aspects

5 Applications in exegesis and religious discourse
Lucia Salvato: The communication of certainty/uncertainty within a Gospel passage (John 9: 1–41)
Rosa Scardigno & Giuseppe Mininni: Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourse

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