The Semantic Field Of Modal Certainty

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ISBN: 9783110196177 | 3110196174
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Copyright: 11/30/2007

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This book provides a detailed account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainty in present-day English. Methodologically it relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing. It is the first study in which the semantic field of certainty as realised by English adverbs is explored.

Acknowledgements	p. v
Aims, methodology and data	p. 1
Why this book is needed and what it is about	p. 1
Modality and pragmatics	p. 3
Aims	p. 5
Methodology	p. 6
Outline of the book	p. 9
Establishing meaning relations: Problems and solutions	p. 10
Introduction	p. 10
Traditional theories of field semantics	p. 10
The representation of non-discreteness in the conceptual field	p. 12
Frame semantics	p. 13
Semantic fields and feature decomposition	p. 15
Methods to analyse semantic fields based on similarity and adjacency	p. 16
Multifunctionality and translation paradigms	p. 17
The representation problem - semantic maps	p. 19
Lexical items and patterns	p. 21
Summing up: the procedure used to study semantic relations in this work	p. 22
The linguistic categories of modality and evidentiality	p. 24
Introduction	p. 24
Chafe (1986): A broad view of evidentiality	p. 24
Faller (2002): A narrow view of evidentiality	p. 29
Evidentials, modals and degrees of commitment	p. 31
Adverbs of certainty and the assertive sentence	p. 32
Subjectivity and evidentiality	p. 33
Mirativity: how relevant is it in the English system?	p. 36
Conclusion	p. 38
An integrated model for describing adverbs of certainty	p. 40
Introduction	p. 40
Heteroglossia and rhetorical function	p. 40
Indexicality and the context	p. 44
Reflexivity	p. 49
Levels of meaning	p. 51
Classification of adverbs of certainty	p. 57
Introduction	p. 57
Classifications of adverbs of certainty in grammars	p. 57
Studies of modal adverbials in English	p. 64
The list of adverbs studied in this book	p. 69
The meaning of modal adverbs	p. 71
Adverbs of certainty	p. 74
A contrastive perspective	p. 77
The epistemic certainty adverbs certainly, definitely, indeed: Synatagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions	p. 80
Introduction	p. 80
A note on frequencies	p. 80
A syntagmatic approach	p. 81
A paradigmatic approach: the use of translation paradigms	p. 83
Subclassification of the adverbs of certainty	p. 83
Certainly	p. 85
Definitely	p. 97
Indeed	p. 104
Summing up	p. 119
The epistemic certainty adverbs no doubt, surely: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions	p. 121
No doubt and related expressions	p. 121
Surely	p. 134
Summing up	p. 145
Evidential, expectation and speech act adverbs: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions	p. 147
Evidential adverbs	p. 147
Expectation adverbs	p. 172
Speech act adverbs	p. 191
Adverbs of certainty and the wider context: Text types and genres	p. 195
Introduction	p. 195
Distribution in corpora	p. 195
Of course	p. 204
Certainly	p. 210
Indeed	p. 214
Obviously	p. 219
Clearly	p. 223
Definitely	p. 227
Surely	p. 229
Naturally	p. 235
No doubt	p. 236
A note on undoubtedly	p. 243
Conclusions: a comparison with previous studies	p. 244
Semantic-pragmatic relations: Networks and maps	p. 247
Introduction	p. 247
The method of establishing translation networks	p. 247
The translation networks in four languages	p. 249
The evidential adverbs obviously, clearly, evidently	p. 254
Certainly, surely, definitely, indeed, no doubt	p. 257
Expectation markers: of course and naturally	p. 261
Coded and pragmatic meanings	p. 262
Networks as the basis for semantic maps	p. 263
Semantic-pragmatic relations: Parameters and features	p. 278
Introduction	p. 278
Parameters and features	p. 278
Position in the clause	p. 280
Scope	p. 283
Modal status	p. 283
Heteroglossic functions	p. 304
Discourse functions	p. 308
Indexical stance	p. 311
Register: speech and writing	p. 314
Connecting adverbs: clusters based on the feature analysis	p. 315
Connecting features and translations	p. 318
Conclusions	p. 321
Appendix	p. 325
Notes	p. 369
References	p. 371
Index of names	p. 387
Index of subjects	p. 389
Abbreviations of corpora	p. 396
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