This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather tha

This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather tha

This volume explores a model of epistemic stance, according to which speakers can communicate each single piece of information either as known/certain or uncert

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of research on stance by offering a variety of studies based in natural discourse. These collected papers explor

Each time we take a turn in conversation we indicate what we know and what we think others know. However, knowledge is neither static nor absolute. It is shaped