Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality : Conceptual and Descriptive Issues

Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.

Marta Carretero is Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has authored on modality, evidentiality and evaluative language, mainly in English and contrasting English and Spanish.

Juana I. Marín-Arrese is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English Studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her recent research focuses on stance, epistemicity and the expression of inter/subjectivity in discourse.

Elena Domínguez Romero is Associate Professor of English language and linguistics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her recent research interests comprise evidentiality and positioning in media discourse as well as applied linguistics and innovative teaching research.

Mª Victoria Martín de la Rosa is Associate Professor of English language and linguistics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her main research interest centres on the use of modality in UN Resolutions as well as on metaphor in political and educational discourse.