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Title: Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English
Creators: Zuczkowski Andrzej.; Bongelli Ramona.; Riccioni Ilaria.
Imprint: Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2021
Collection: Электронные книги зарубежных издательств; Общая коллекция
Subjects: English language — Discourse analysis.; English language — Spoken English.; Dialogue analysis.; Conversation analysis.; EBSCO eBooks
Document type: Other
File type: PDF
Language: English
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This volume explores a model of epistemic stance, according to which speakers can communicate each single piece of information either as known/certain or uncertain or unknown. It presents a qualitative analysis of extracts from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 to support the idea that questions come from two distinct epistemic positions: the Unknowing and the Uncertain; this latter ranges along two poles: Not Knowing Whether and Believing.In the epistemic continuum, Unknowing questions express a lack of knowledge and range from open to closed and dual wh-questions. On the other hand, Un.

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Table of Contents

  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Part 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
  • Part 3
  • Chapter 10
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 12
  • Overall Conclusions
  • References
  • KUB Bibliography

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