Perspectives on evidentiality in Spanish : explorations across genres

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"Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish. Adopting a discursive perspective, all of the chapters examine how the functional category of evidentiality is brought into discourse, which set of linguistic strategies makes explicit what counts as evidence in certain contexts and in certain textual genres, and what particular pragmatic meanings these mechanisms acquire, invoke and project onto the on-going discourse. In particular, this book is concerned with the relationship between evidential expressions and the pragmatic meaning(s) triggered by those expressions, and the role of genre in shaping the evidential meanings. The volume is addressed to both theoretically and empirically minded scholars in the disciplines of pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, communication studies, and psychology"--  Read more... Evidentiality in discourse / Adrián Cabedo Nebot and Carolina Figueras Bates -- On the dynamicity of evidential scales: Pragmatic indirectness in evidentiality as a rhetorical strategy in academic and political discourse / Maria Estellés and Marta Albelda -- Exploring evidentiality in Spanish Biology articles (1850-1920): Intersubjectivity and accessibility of evidences / Dorota Kotwica -- Performing the self in illness narratives: The role of evidentiality / Carolina Figueras Bates -- Evidentiality, deonticity and intensification in Internet forum language / Elisabeth Miche -- Prosody, genres and evidentiality in Spanish: The case of "por lo visto" / Adrian Cabedo Nebot -- "No sé": Epistemic stance, evidential grounding and scope in unplanned oral genres / Montserrat González -- The Spanish quotative según across written genres / Ana Llopis Cardona -- Según along time: Following an epistemic path / Ricardo Maldonado and Juliana De la Mora Gutiérrez -- Tenses in interaction: Beyond evidentiality / Susana Rodríguez Rosique.