The same development is evident in Old English forstandan "to understand," Old High German forstān. Compare understand. First Known Use 1922, in the meaning defined above Time Traveler The first known use of epistemic was in 1922 See more words from the same year ...
In several studies of adolescent speech in European urban centres, the same set of Arabic-derived epistemic phrases, namely wallah , wallahi and related phrases meaning 'swear', appear to be in use (see, e.g., Quist 2005; Opsahl 2009; Lehtonen 2015). In this article, we d...
"pertaining to knowledge," 1886, from Greek episteme "knowledge," especially scientific… See origin and meaning of epistemic.
Modality in academic discourse: meaning and use of epistemic verbs in research articles English Language and Linguistics Chemnitz University of Technology http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/ling/staff_marcinkowski.php melanie.marcinkowski@... M Marcinkowski - 《Interpretation of Meaning Across Discou...
Processing epistemic modality in a second language: a self-paced reading study. The study sought to examine how English L2 learners process modal verbs can and may in their epistemic, deontic, and dynamic meaning, referring to ... Mifka-Profozic,Nadia. - 《Iral International Review of Applied...
worldview that this discourse encodes is essentially positivist; it privileges the referential function of language at the expense of the interpersonal or textual and crystallizes the dynamic flux of experience into static, observable blocs, rendering the universe passive, inert and devoid of meaning. ...
This is a ground-breaking study in the historical semantics and pragmatics of English in the 16th and 17th centuries. It examines the meaning, use and cultural underpinnings of confident- and certain-sounding epistemic expressions, such as forsooth , by my troth and in faith , and first ...
epistemic meaning认识情态义 3)epidemic modality认识型情态 1.The traditional linguists\' study lies only in the modal verbs,while the functional linguists focuses their attention on the modality itself in terms of a new perspective and they made a new explanations to one of the basic modality—epi...
a. Conventional meaning: Somebody arrived late b. Ignorance implicature: The speaker doesn't know who Epistemic Indefinites (henceforth EIs) are indefinites in which this ignorance in-ference is conventionalized (Jayez and Tovena, 2006; Alonso-Ovalle and Menéndez-Benito, 2010). Examples of ...
Cultural anthropology: DNA studies challenge the meaning of race According to geneticists and anthropologists, genetic diversity appears to fall along a continuum, with no clear breaks delineating different groups. But, ... E Marshall - 《Science》 被引量: 221发表: 1998年 The Strength of Loose ...