Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2012

Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages

Edited by: Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

Volume 243 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110271072

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Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of knowledge and belief of the addressee with the aim to optimally achieve understanding and an assessment of relevant information exchange.

In languages such as German (and other Germanic languages outside of English), this may happen in covert terms. Main categories used for this purpose are modal adverbials ("modal particles") and modal verbs. Epistemic uses of modal verbs (like German sollen) cover evidential (reportative) information simultaneously providing the source of the information.

Methodologically, description and explanation rest on Karl Bühler's concept of Origo as well as Roman Jakobson's concept of shifter. Typologically, East Asian languages such as Japanese pursue these semasiological fundaments far more closely than the European languages. In particular, Japanese has to mark the source of a statement in the declarative mode such that the reliability may be assessed by the hearer.

The contributions in this collection provide insight into these modal techniques.

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Werner Abraham, Vienna University, Austria, and Munich University, Germany; Elisabeth Leiss, Munich University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Theory of mind elements across languages. Traces of Bühler’s legacy in modern linguistics Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. The foundation: speaker and hearer deixis, shifter, and double displacement
Epistemicity, Evidentiality, and Theory of Mind (ToM) Elisabeth Leiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Illocutive force is speaker and information source concern. What type of syntax does the representation of speaker deixis require? Templates vs. derivational structure? Werner Abraham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Exploring the Theory of Mind interface Jakob Maché Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
The distribution of knowledge in (un)acceptable questions Sonja Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Traces of Bühler’s semiotic legacy in modern linguistics Werner Abraham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Part II. Instances of deixis and origo in sundry languages
Modal particles, speaker-hearer links, and illocutionary force Marco Coniglio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Discourse particles at the semantics-pragmatics interface Markus Egg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Modality in the Romance languages: Modal verbs and modal particles Benjamin Meisnitzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
The epistemological treatment of information and the interpersonal distribution of belief in language: German Modal Particles and the typological challenge Pierre-Yves Modicom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Construction-dependent person hierarchies Kees de Schepper and Helen de Hoop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Illocutionary force and modal particle in the syntax of Japanese Yoshio Endo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
What is it that keeps the rein on quotative modals so tight? A cross-linguistic perspective Łukasz Jędrzejowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
General index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists working on Syntax, Semantics, Typology; Academic Libraries; Research Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 460
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 24
- Tables: 8
Keywords: Modality; Syntax; Semantics; Typology

eBook

Published: May 29, 2012
ISBN: 9783110271072

Hardcover

Published: May 18, 2012
ISBN: 9783110270198