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Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse

Whitt, Richard J.

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Most research on evidentiality has focused on classifying evidential systems synchronically; meanwhile, diachronic studies on evidentiality seem to have focused on the development of specific items into evidential markers with little regard to discourse context. This paper begins to fill this gap by presenting the results of a corpus-based study of evidential markers in Early Modern scientific discourse in English and German. The Early Modern period witnessed the transition from scholastic-based models of science to more empirical models of enquiry; this study demonstrates a decrease in the use of markers of mediated information and an increase in the use of markers of direct observation and inference accompanying these sociohistorical developments.

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Whitt, R. J. (2017). Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse. Kalbotyra, 69, https://doi.org/10.15388/Klbt.2016.10376

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 7, 2016
Publication Date Jan 30, 2017
Deposit Date Feb 1, 2017
Publicly Available Date Feb 1, 2017
Journal Kalbotyra
Print ISSN 2029-8315
Electronic ISSN 2029–8315
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 69
DOI https://doi.org/10.15388/Klbt.2016.10376
Keywords Evidentiality, Early Modern Period, Scientific Discourse, English, German
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/838705
Publisher URL http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/kalbotyra/article/view/10376
Contract Date Feb 1, 2017

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