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Modality and Theory of Mind Elements Across Languages

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Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages - Abraham, Werner (Editor), and Leiss, Elisabeth (Editor)
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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 ...

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Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages 2012, Walter de Gruyter, Basel/Berlin/Boston

ISBN-13: 9783110270198

Hardcover