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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827009603321

Autore

Mushin Ilana

Titolo

Evidentiality and epistemological stance : narrative retelling / / Ilana Mushin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001

John Benjamins Publishing Company

ISBN

1-282-16246-2

9786612162466

90-272-9812-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 87

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Grammar, Comparative and general - Indirect discourse

Knowledge, Theory of

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES

Linguistics / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Evidentiality -- Chapter 3: Epistemological stance -- Chapter 4: Epistemological stance adoption in narrative retelling -- Chapter 5: Reportive epistemological stance realisation in Macedonian, Japanese and English -- Chapter 6: Reportive strategies in narrative retelling -- Chapter 7: Deviations from a reportive epistemological stance -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Language index -- Name index -- Subject index -- The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and grammatical factors that motivate the adoption of an



'epistemological stance' - a concept that owes much to recent trends in Cognitive Linguistics. The patterns of evidential strategies found in the three languages provide a fine illustration of the balancing act between speakers' expressions of their own subjectivity, their motivations to tell a coherent and exciting story, and their motivations to be faithful retellers of someone elses' story. These pressures are further complicated by the grammatical and pragmatic conventions that are particular to each language. Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: narrative retelling will appeal to those interested in evidentiality, grammar and pragmatics, cross-linguistics discourse analysis, linguistic subjectivity and narrative.