Evidentiality and the perception of certainty: a pragmatic analysis
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- dc.contributor.author Tataret Ortiz, Júlia
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-03-03T17:49:30Z
- dc.date.available 2025-03-03T17:49:30Z
- dc.date.issued 2024
- dc.description Treball de fi de màster en Lingüística Teòrica i Aplicada. Directora: Dra. Laia Mayol Toll
- dc.description.abstract This thesis investigates whether evidential markers in Catalan can affect the perceived certainty of a proposition. The analysis builds on previous accounts of evidentiality as a conversational implicature for evidential languages and extends them to languages where this category is not obligatory or encoded grammatically. Experimental results show that indirect evidentials are perceived as weakening the degree of certainty of an utterance, while direct markers have a strengthening effect. However, the nature of these effects is not the same for both types of markers. The inference drawn by indirect evidentials is best captured as a scalar implicature,but this is not the case for direct evidentials. An alternative analysis is proposed where the direct marker has an emphatic function that only arises upon its use but is not naturally implicated by its weaker alternative. This dissertation contributes to the study of evidentiality in Catalan and its pragmatic implications.
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69784
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.rights Llicència Creative Commons, Reconeixement-NoComercial-SenseObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional
- dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.ca
- dc.subject.keyword Evidentiality
- dc.subject.keyword Indirect evidentials
- dc.subject.keyword Direct evidentials
- dc.subject.keyword Pragmatics
- dc.subject.keyword Scalar implicatures
- dc.subject.keyword Perception of certainty
- dc.title Evidentiality and the perception of certainty: a pragmatic analysis
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis