Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance
Narrative Retelling
| University of Melbourne
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.
Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: narrative retelling will appeal to those interested in evidentiality, grammar and pragmatics, cross-linguistics discourse analysis, linguistic subjectivity and narrative.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 87] 2001. xviii, 240 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface
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xi–xiv
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Acknowledgements
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xv
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Abbreviations
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xvii
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Introduction
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1–15
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Evidentiality
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17–50
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Epistemological stance
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51–83
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Epistemological stance adoption in narrative retelling
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85–101
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Reportive epistemological stance realisation in Macedonian, Japanese and English
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103–133
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Reportive strategies in narrative retelling
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135–171
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Deviations from a reportive epistemological stance
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173–198
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Notes
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199–201
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References
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203–212
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Appendix A
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213–215
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Appendix B
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217–233
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Name index
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237–238
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Subject index
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239–240
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“This book is a valuable contribution to pragmatic studies in general and is of great value to those of us who work with evidentials from any point of view, showing on a micro-level how speakers can utilize evidentials and evidential strategies within a narrative to express their relationship to the knowledge they are conveying.”
Timothy Jowan Curnow, La Trobe University, in Language, Vol. 79, Number 2, 2003
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