Evidentiality and epistemological stance : narrative retelling / Ilana Mushin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mushin, Ilana.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 87.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Indirect discourse.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2001.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612162466

9781282162464

1282162462

9789027298126

9027298122

OCLC:

70769005