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This chapter focuses on speaker/conceptualiser stance in striving for epistemic and effective control in discourse. The framework for the analysis of stance posits two macro categories, epistemic and effective stance, which reflect the systematic opposition in discourse between the striving for control of conceptions of reality by providing justifi...
Effective stance strategies are used by speakers/writers to legitimise action plans and events, which may be in their interest, and persuade or coerce hearers/readers into accepting them. Effective stance resources include a variety of lexico-grammatical elements of deonticity, directivity and the expression of normativity, intentionality and poten...
This introduction to the special issue on epistemicity and stance provides an overview of epistemic stance resources in a number of European languages, with a focus on discourse-pragmatic meanings and uses. Epistemicity is viewed as a conceptual domain which includes the subcategories of epistemic modality and evidentiality. The contributions in th...
Corpus-based contrastive and translation research are areas that keep evolving in the digital age, as the range of new corpus resources and tools expands, opening up to different approaches and application contexts. The current book contains a selection of papers which focus on corpora and translation research in the digital age, outlining some rec...
This paper explores two key domains of speaker’s stance in discourse: epistemic and effective stance (Marín-Arrese 2011, 2015, 2021). The framework draws on Langacker’s (2009, 2013) distinction between the effective and the epistemic level in the grammar, and the systematic opposition thereof between striving for control of relations at the level o...
This paper explores the potential effect of emotion on the use of stance expressions by columnists in their comment on acts of terrorism in the UK and in other European countries. The paper brings together work on epistemicity and effectivity (Marín-Arrese 2011, 2015), and stance strategies in discourse (Englebretson 2007; DuBois 2007). The paper f...
The creative potentiality of metaphor is one of the central themes in research on creativity. The present volume offers a space for the interdisciplinary discussion of the relationship between metaphor and creativity by focusing on (re)contextualization across modes and socio-cultural contexts and on the performative dimension of creative discourse...
This chapter addresses a key issue in United Kingdom political discourse: the expression of epistemic or effective stance by politicians with respect to the issue of immigration, migration, and the refugee crisis in Europe, which is often presented as a potential “threat” for the UK. The multifaceted nature of stance has been associated with notion...
This paper aims to explore the potential of political cartoon discourse for creativity, critique and persuasion, in the representation of social actors and events and in the evaluation of the consequences of Brexit. The paper focuses on the use and interaction of metaphors, metonymies, blending strategies, and cultural models in cartoons depicting...
CorpusNet is a hub of corpora and corpus-related bilingual and multilingual materials. It has been conceived as a platform for resources that include one of the languages of Spain and, at least, another language. It contains i) ready-to-use corpora, ii) corpus building tools such as taggers, aligners, etc., iii) conceptual tools (tagsets), iv) appl...
After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. Thus, some chapters rely on large diachronic corp...
This paper presents a contrastive analysis of six English evidential adverbs ending in -ly with their Spanish nearest translation equivalents, in spoken and newspaper discourse. The adverbs may be associated with varying degrees of reliability: high (clearly/claramente, evidently/evidentemente, obviously/obviamente), medium (apparently/al parecer)...
Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages focuses on discourse-pragmatic studies on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality, and also includes studies on deontic modality. The book presents ground-breaking research on the functions and the discourse-pragmatic variation of evidential expressions and modals in diverse discourses an...
Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with special emphasis on the use of evidential and epistemic e...
This paper is an attempt to study Kövecses’s (2000a) claim on the stability of emotion metaphors during time with regard to love metaphors in Persian language. In other words, the aim is to see whether love metaphorical expressions in Persian everyday language underlie the same conceptual metaphors in Persian creative language such as poetry. At th...
Political cartoon discourse refers to a genre of discourse and communication which combines caricature, humor and satire in the pictorial representation of public or political figures and/or current socio-political events with the evaluative dimension in the expression of the critical stance of the cartoonist. This entry traces the historical devel...
This article explores the use of epistemic stance strategies in journalistic discourse in English and Spanish. The linguistic resources of epistemic stance include evidential and modal expressions, as well as verbs of cognitive attitude and expressions of factivity. This article examines the pattern of distribution of epistemic stance expressions i...
This paper addresses two key issues in the study of discursive constructions: the strategic use of ‘justificatory support’ aimed at the legitimisation of assertions, and the mystification of responsibility for epistemic stance acts in the discourse. The paper argues that the use of epistemic stance resources contributes to the speaker's strategic a...
The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking are...
The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking are...
Hart (this issue) offers a biologically based explanation for the use of an ‘epistemic positioning strategy’ aimed by speakers/writers at the legitimization of assertions, at persuading addressees of the veracity of the propositions, as a prior condition for the discursive legitimization of actions. This article focuses on various issues addressed...
Spontaneous and facilitative events (Kemmer 1993) are linguistically coded by thematic-subject constructions (Langacker 1991) such as the inchoative and middle - other descriptive labels found in the literature are anticausative, ergative, process-oriented, and patient-subject, facility-oriented passive, notional passive, or mediopassive.
The inc...
The introduction of the perspective or viewpoint of the speaker/writer involves the expression of their attitudes, assessments and value judgements with regard to the described situation and the communicated proposition. Linguistic resources for the expression of viewpoint choices include modal, evidential and attitudinal expressions, as well as ex...
Languages make use of different strategies for the defocusing of the agent, which represent a continuum in the mystification of agency or degree to which a specific agent is evoked. We have used the term 'impersonalisation strategies' to refer to a variety of linguistic means which allow for varying degrees of backgrounding of the role of agency, r...
The creation and interpretation of humor in cartoons draws on various cognitive mechanisms, such as conceptual metaphor and metonymy, con-ceptual integration or blending, and cognitive and cultural models. The role that these mechanisms play in the humor process has been explored in relatively recent studies (Coulson 2002; Brône & Feyaerts 2003; Me...
This paper explores the expression of author commitment to the validity of the information, and the degree of subjectivity or intersubjectivity involved in the presentation of the information in two genres of newspaper discourse, opinion columns and leading articles. The dimension of author commitment is analysed in terms of the parameters: evident...
This paper explores the expression of evaluation and the treatment of 'the same event' in news reportage and journalistic commentary in two languages (English, Spanish). In our analysis of the evaluative dimension, we draw on the framework of Appraisal Theory (Martin 2000; Martin and White 2005; White 2003, White 2004, inter alia), and elaborate on...
Theories of humour have attributed the creation and interpretation of humour to emotional and cognitive factors, involving arousal-relief mechanisms, hostility, and incongruity-resolution processes (Freud 1905; Koestler [1964]1989; Gruner 1997; Suls 1972). Linguistic theories have centered on the bisociation produced by two frames of reference, or...
The aim of this paper is to explore differences and similarities in the expression of writer stance in newspaper discourse in English and Spanish.
The creation and interpretation of humour crucially depends on both emotional and cognitive factors, involving arousal-relief mechanisms, hostility, and incongruity-resolution processes (Freud 1905; Gruner 1978; Suls 1972). Linguistic theories have centered on the bisociation produced by two frames of reference, or the abrupt shift in scripts, trig...
La finalidad de esta tesis es la de ofrecer una descripción funcional-tipologica de la pasiva en ingles, en concreto de la construcción con "be+v-ed", restringiéndose al ámbito de la lengua escrita, así como la de identificar la función principal que motiva la selección de esta construcción en el discurso. La estructura del presente trabajo es la s...
The existence of syncretisms in the marked coding patterns for variations in the domains of transitivity and voice presumably indicate the interrelation between constructions involving different event views and voice alternations and voicerelated phenomena, such as inchoative and stative resultative morphosyntax. This paper will examine deviations...
Conceprualization of evenrs is inrimately associared with the functional domain of transitivity and with voice. írhe presenr paper examines the syncrerism involved in coding deviarions from the prororypical event view, variations in transirivity and voice alternarions. It is argued thar transirivity and voice are besr understood in t e m of a serie...
Human capacity to conceptualize and reason appears to be essentially a question of both human experience (perceptions, cultural practices, motor activity) and imagination (metaphor, metonymy, mental imagery) (Lakoff,G. & M. Johnson,1980; Johnson,M.,1987; Lakoff,G.,1987; Lakoff,G.,1994). This paper aims to reveal the existence of a coherent conceptu...
