"Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish. Adopting a discursive perspective, all of the chapters examine how the functional category of evidentiality is brought into discourse, which set of linguistic strategies makes explicit what counts as evidence in certain contexts and in certain textual genres, and what particular pragmatic meanings these mechanisms acquire, invoke and project onto the on-going discourse. In particular, this book is concerned with the relationship between evidential expressions and the pragmatic meaning(s) triggered by those expressions, and the role of genre in shaping the evidential meanings. The volume is addressed to both theoretically and empirically minded scholars in the disciplines of pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, communication studies, and psychology"--.

• Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1. Evidentiality in discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The domain of evidentiality
    • 2.1 Evidentials in discourse
  • 3. Evidentiality and discourse genre: Pragmatic overtones
  • 4. Presenting the chapters
  • References
• Chapter 2. On the dynamicity of evidential scales: Pragmatic indirectness in evidentiality as a rhetorical strategy in academic and political discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Evidentiality and pragmatics
  • 3. Evidentials in interaction: Dynamic scales and pragmatic indirectness
  • 4. Final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 3. Exploring evidentiality in Spanish Biology articles (1850–1920): Intersubjectivity and accessibility of evidences
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The dimension of access in evidentiality
  • 3. Corpus and methods
  • 4. Results and discussion
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 4. Performing the self in illness narratives: The role of evidentiality
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodology
  • 3. Results
  • 4. Discussion and concluding remarks
  • References
• Chapter 5. Evidentiality, deonticity and intensification in Internet forum language
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Work methodology and preliminary considerations concerning the corpus data
  • 3. The theoretical question
  • 4. Tienes que + infinitive [you have to + infinitive] vs. debes + infinitive [you should + infinitive]
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Chapter 6. Prosody, genres and evidentiality in Spanish: The case of “por lo visto”
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Selected genres and samples
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Genre analysis
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 7. ‘No sé’: Epistemic stance, evidential grounding and scope in unplanned oral genres
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Pragmatic functions of no sé in unplanned oral genres
  • 3. Stance, subjectivity and grammaticization of no sé
  • 4. Position and scope of no sé in unplanned oral genres
  • 5. Discussion and concluding remarks
  • References
• Chapter 8. The Spanish quotative según across written genres
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. General aim and hypotheses
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Distinguishing the quotative function
  • 5. Analysis and description of the quotative function in según
  • 6. Characterization of quotative markers
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 9. Según along time: Following an epistemic path
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methods
  • 3. The diachrony of según
  • 4. Tracing the epistemic path. Evidence from oral corpora
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Corpora
  • References
• Chapter 10. Tenses in interaction: Beyond evidentiality
  • 1. Time, tense, tenses, and the puzzle of the future
  • 2. A deictic definition for the future
  • 3. Interaction as a joint activity
  • 4. Discursive functions of the future
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Index