Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A Description of Its Interactional Functions, with a Focus on I Think

by Elise Karkkainen

This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588114449
• ISBN13: 9781588114440
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 213 Pages