Epistemic Meaning: A Crosslinguistic and Functional-Cognitive Study

ISBN-13: 9783110204384 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 390 str.

Kasper Boye

Opis

This book deals with epistemic expressions: the linguistic means we have for expressing our degree of certainty about and our type of evidence for propositions about the world. It presents a cross-linguistic study of such expressions and demonstrates that they behave in a way that can be described in terms of a coherent but complex meaning domain. In order to account for this behaviour the book proposes to analyse epistemic meaning in terms of a coherent but complex cognitive structure which is bound up with our cognitive capacity for relating our conception of the world to the world.

Recenzje

"Boye s work is a valuable addition to the literature on epistemic meaning - he is very clear about his thesis and goals and is careful to show how each is demonstrated and met."
Robert Earl LaBarge in: Linguist List 24.1827

"This excellent book is an enormous step forward toward a comprehensive theory of propositional marking and of epistemicity. For these fields, it sets standards of clarity and succinctness of argumentation. Therefore, its natural place is among the standard books on these subject matters."
Björn Wiemer in: Studies in Language 37:2

 

O autorze

Kasper Boye, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.