Epistemic modals
A cross-theoretical approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22342104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zoltán Vecsey (0000-0001-7502-7548, Center for Applied Linguistics, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 422-436 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2210-4119 • E-ISSN: 2210-4127 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ld.3.3.05vec |
| OpenAlex | W2072026006 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In recent years, the standard account of epistemic modal discourse has been criticized from two directions. Expressivists and dynamic semanticists argue that simple epistemic modal sentences should be understood as non-truth-conditional. Relativists hold that the truth values of epistemic modal sentences are determined by the features of their contexts of assessment. I argue below that one can integrate the core insights of these critical stances without falling into contradiction
Contradiction · Epistemic modality · Epistemology · Linguistics · Modal · Modal verb · Sociology · Truth value · Verb · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |