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- Axelsson, Karin, 1959-
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Confirmation-demanding tag questions in fiction dialogue
- 2014
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Ingår i: Subjectivity and epistemicity. - Lund : Lund University. - 9789187833199 ; , s. 165-185
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with tag questions to which an answer is demanded by a speaker who is certain about the truth of the proposition but who wants to hear the answer uttered by the addressee. Similar tag questions have previously been described based on data from courtrooms (e.g. Biscetti 2006), where tag questions are typically used by powerful speakers. However, data from the British National Corpus shows that confirmation-demanding tag questions may also be used outside institutional settings and in situations with various power relationships. Most of these examples are from fiction dialogue, where conflicts and confrontations are often depicted. In courtrooms, there is always an audience; however, in fiction dialogue, most confirmation-demanding questions in the data are found in private conversations. Confirmation-demanding tag questions seldom seem to be captured in conversational data, apart from in cases where the speaker wants the answer to be heard by a third party; it is therefore suggested that private confrontations might be underrepresented in conversational data. This paper also discusses functional categorizations of tag questions in general and argues that the unit of analysis should be the whole tag question, i.e. the anchor and the tag taken together, and not just the tag.
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- Hommerberg, Charlotte, et al.
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Constructing credibility through representations in the discourse of wine: Evidentiality, temporality and epistemic control
- 2014
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Ingår i: Subjectivity and Epistemicity. Corpus, discourse, and literary approaches to stance. - 9789187833199 ; , s. 211-238
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the relationship between evidentiality, temporality and epistemic control through detailed interpretive analysis of wine reviews written by Robert Parker, whose outstanding authority in this particular discourse field provides an exceptionally fruitful backdrop for the exploration of credibility in discourse. The material consists of 200 entire reviews, which are divided into units based on differences in temporality, evidentiality and modes of knowing. The analysis takes into consideration linguistic markers realized in the texts as well as implicitness that emanates from general world knowledge and more specific contextual awareness. It is shown in detail how the construction of credibility in this particular instance of persuasive discourse relies on complex interrelations between explicit and implicit features of texts as well as combinations of socio-cultural factors, which taken together result in epistemic control of the depicted events, i.e. an impression that what is communicated is the ultimate truth about the wines. The more general implications of the study are first to contribute to the body of theoretical work that strives to extend the understanding of evidentiality and temporality beyond explicit linguistic markers, and second to promote the approach adopted in this study as a useful complement to other methods used in interpretive discourse analysis.
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- Pudney, Eric, et al.
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Chorus and Stance in Early Modern English Drama
- 2014
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Ingår i: Subjectivity and Epistemicity : Corpus, Discourse, and Literary Approaches to Stance. - : Lunds Universitet. - 0076-1451. - 9789187833199 ; 117, s. 41-61
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- Pöldvere, Nele, et al.
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The interaction between epistemicity and social rank on an online bulletin board
- 2015
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Ingår i: Subjectivity and epistemicity : corpus, discourse, and literary approaches to stance - corpus, discourse, and literary approaches to stance. - 0076-1451. - 9789187833199 ; 117
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the close interaction between epistemic and evidential stance verbs on the one hand and social hierarchy and power on the other. It is hypothesized that there is a correlation between the degree and intensity of stance verbs and the social context in which they are generated. The data for the study comes from an online bulletin board, in which members are believed to have formed a virtual community with considerable linguistic and social variation. In order to enable the investigation of stance relative to an extra-linguistic dimension, social status is operationalized and members of the community are divided into three hierarchically distinct ranks: moderators, hosts and casual senders. A dialogical approach to the data suggests the distinct use of epistemic and evidential stance verbs in establishing and maintaining group membership by the three hierarchically different ranks.
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- Sjölin, Mette, et al.
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Attitude and irony in the narrative voices of Jane Austen's juvenilia
- 2014
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Ingår i: Subjectivity and Epistemicity : Corpus, Discourse and Literary Approaches to Stance. - 0076-1451. - 9789187833199 ; 117, s. 63-90
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This narratological study deals with the stance of irony in Jane Austen’s juvenilia. It looks for ‘gaps’ between the attitudes of implied authors, narrators and characters, and investigates how these gaps contribute to the irony of the texts. Once it has been established that the implied author has an ‘ironic intent’, the primary question is whether the narrator shares this intent. Some narrators seem to display an ironic attitude towards their characters and make consciously ironic comments, but in other cases the narrator seems totally oblivious of any irony in their narrative; indeed, the very cluelessness of the narrator is sometimes a source of comedy. Austen’s early narrative texts, which constitute the main portion of the juvenilia, can be divided into three categories according to narrative situation: narratives with one heterodiegetic narrator, narratives with one homodiegetic narrator – in this category, ‘Love and Freindship’ is the chief instance – and narratives with multiple homodiegetic narrators. This division leads to the discovery that the attitudinal gaps are to be found between different personae in different categories.
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