Pragmatic markers and propositional attitude / edited by Gisle Andersen, Thorstein Fretheim.

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PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; The role of the pragmatic marker like in utterance interpretation; Particles, propositional attitude and mutual manifestness; Procedural encoding of propositional attitude in Norwegian conditional clauses; Incipient decategorization of MONO and grammaticalization of speaker attitude in Japanese discourse; Procedural encoding of explicatures by the Modern Greek particle taha.

Linguistic encoding of the guarantee of relevance: Japanese sentence-final particle YOMarkers of general interpretive use in Amharic and Swahili; The attitudinal meaning of preverbal markers in Gascon: Insights from the analysis of literary and spoken language data; Actually and other markers of an apparent discrepancy between propositional attitudes of conversational partners; Surprise and animosity: The use of the copula da inquotative sentences in Japanese; The interplay of Hungarian de (but) and is (too, either); Index.

In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them. That is, we communicate how our mind entertains those propositions that we express. A speaker is able to express an attitude of belief, desire, hope, doubt, fear, regret or pretence that a given proposition represents a true state of affairs. This collection of papers explores the contribution of particles and other uninflected mood-indicating function words to the expression of propositional attitude in the broad sense. Some languages employ this type of attitude-marking device extensiv.

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