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1 - Pragmatics: Modality and Speaker Orientation

from I - Modes of Modality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2021

Werner Abraham
Werner Abraham
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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This chapter sets the issues, i.e. that what we think we see, hear, and think is fake as long as the perspectives under origo calculation and the ranges of simple and double displacement options are not taken into account. This is what in principle is captured by theory of mind, or foreign consciousness alignment, and the constellation of the viewpoint and deixis. and is run through lexicals and grammar, i.e. through aspect, tense, mood, and modality/ATMM. We show how it works and how the four modules, ATMM, are connected in a hierarchical fashion from aspect to (Guilleaume, Peirce).

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deixis in displaced worlds(double) displacement (of the origo)perspectivizationmodal discourse particlesthe pragmatic nature of modalityshifterssubjectivityviewpoint
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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics , pp. 13 - 59
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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