Description
This book deals with epistemic expressions: the linguistic means we have for expressing our degree of certainty about and our type of evidence for propositions about the world. It presents a cross-linguistic study of such expressions and demonstrates that they behave in a way that can be described in terms of a coherent but complex meaning domain. In order to account for this behaviour the book proposes to analyse epistemic meaning in terms of a coherent but complex cognitive structure which is bound up with our cognitive capacity for relating our conception of the world to the world.
Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
392 pages
Language
English
Published
Jul 30, 2012
Publisher
Not Avail
Editions
5 editions
ISBN-10
6613940062
ISBN-13
9786613940063