
Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages.
Title:
Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages.
Author:
Abraham, Werner.
ISBN:
9783110271072
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (470 pages)
Series:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; v.243
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Contents:
Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Theory of mind elements across languages -- Part I. The foundation: speaker and hearer deixis, shifter, and double displacement -- Epistemicity, evidentiality, and Theory of Mind (ToM) -- Illocutive force is speaker and information source concern. What type of syntax does the representation of speaker deixis require? Templates vs. derivational structure? -- Exploring the Theory of Mind interface -- The distribution of knowledge in (un)acceptable questions -- Traces of Bühler's semiotic legacy in modern linguistics -- Part II. Instances of deixis and origo in sundry languages -- Modal particles, speaker-hearer links, and illocutionary force -- Discourse particles at the semantics-pragmatics interface -- Modality in the Romance languages: Modal verbs and modal particles -- The epistemological treatment of information and the interpersonal distribution of belief in language: German modal particles and the typological challenge -- On mood, evidentiality, and person effects -- Illocutionary force and modal particle in the syntax of Japanese -- What is it that keeps the rein on quotative modals so tight? A cross-linguistic perspective -- General index.
Abstract:
The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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