Epistemic Words on the Confidence Scale

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dc.contributor.authorБялик, Василь Дмитрович
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-31T11:46:42Z
dc.date.available2025-01-31T11:46:42Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-03
dc.descriptionLinguistic ways of expressing personal feelings and assessments have been the focus of many studies. Thus, the speaker’s position is conveyed through various markers of epistemic modality, among which epistemic words occupy a prominent place. Epistemic words have been studied by many linguists (Leo Hoye, Rodney Huddleston, George Lakoff, Frank Palmer, Geoffrey Pullum, Anna Wierzbicka), psycholinguists (Daniel Kahneman, Karl Teigen, Amos Tversky), sociolinguists ( Janet Holmes, Robin Lakoff) that indicates a comprehensive and synergistic approach to the study of this speech phenomenon. Understanding the semantics of epistemic words is based on the semantic components “I think” and “I do not say that I know” (Wierzbicka 2006: 204). Epistemic words convey the speaker’s attitude to the proposition of the utterance. According to their place in the utterance, epistemic words are divided into those that have a definite position and are used before its proposition (epistemic verbs, nouns and adjectives) and those that do not have a definite place (epistemic adverbs, parentheses or phrases). Usually, epistemic words are used in the main part of the utterance before the subordinate part and are connected with it by the conjunctions that, to or without a conjunction, and in the structure of the statement refer to the pronoun in the first person singular or plural. Also, there is an opinion (Biber 2006: 99) that epistemic words refer to pronouns in any person if they convey a stance to what is said. Anna Wierzbicka (2006: 204) studies epistemic verbs in phrases with the personal pronoun I.uk_UA
dc.description.abstractThe article examines a group of 107 epistemic words in order to determine their integral and differential semes and place them on the confidence scale. The relevance of the study is conditioned by the interest in studying the stance of a speaker's utterance. The article analyses the notion of epistemic words, their linguistic and non-linguistic properties. As a result of definition and semantic analyses of epistemic words, epistemic words with high, medium and low modal strength were singled out. Such a categorization is possible, because epistemic words have the same integral semes but various differential semes. Epistemic words have a scalar nature and the level of their modal strength reflects the speaker's commitment to the utterance that ranges from confidence to uncertainty.uk_UA
dc.identifier.issn2299–7164
dc.identifier.issn2353–3218
dc.identifier.urihttps://archer.chnu.edu.ua/xmlui/handle/123456789/11679
dc.language.isoenuk_UA
dc.publisherACADEMIC JOURNAL OF MODERN PHILOLOGYuk_UA
dc.relation.ispartofseries15;
dc.subjectepistemic wordsmodal strengthlevel of confidenceconfidence scalecomponent analysisuk_UA
dc.titleEpistemic Words on the Confidence Scaleuk_UA
dc.typeArticleuk_UA

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