Format:
XXII, 544 S.
,
graph. Darst.
ISBN:
3110179954
,
9783110179958
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics 155
Content:
This book straddles the border between linguistics and philosophy to address, on a sound interdisciplinary basis, the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption. In languages with no grammaticalized evidential systems, the epistemological structure of discourse underlying perspectival oppositions is heavily dependent on the self-expression of language-using personae and must thereby be inferred from a well-defined set of surface markers. For that matter, the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, supported by the cognitive processes inherent in eventuality-description types
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Linhares-Dias, Rui, 1955 - How to Show Things with Words Berlin ;New York : M. de Gruyter, 2011 ISBN 9783110899627
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Sprachphilosophie
Author information:
Linhares-Dias, Rui 1955-
