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How to Show Things with Words: A Study on Logic, Language and Literature (Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs): 155 Reprint 2011 Edition
Author(s): Rui Linhares-Dias (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- Publication Date: 21 April 2006
- Edition: Reprint 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 544 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110179954
- ISBN-13: 9783110179958
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
Rui Linhares-Dias, Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Azores Archipelago, Portugal.
