Epistemic Words on the Confidence Scale

• Authors: Vasyl Dmytrovych Byalyk , Liudmyla Ivanivna Nizhnik

Abstracts

EN

The article examines a group of 107 epistemic words in order to determine their integral and differential semes and place them on the confidence scale. The relevance of the study is conditioned by the interest in studying the stance of a speaker’s utterance. The article analyses the notion of epistemic words, their linguistic and non-linguistic properties. As a result of definition and semantic analyses of epistemic words, epistemic words with high, medium and low modal strength were singled out. Such a categorization is possible, because epistemic words have the same integral semes but various differential semes. Epistemic words have a scalar nature and the level of their modal strength reflects the speaker’s commitment to the utterance that ranges from confidence to uncertainty.

Keywords

EN

epistemic words; modal strength; level of confidence; confidence scale; component analysis

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 15
• Pages: 107-115

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Vasyl Dmytrovych Byalyk

• Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

author

Liudmyla Ivanivna Nizhnik

• Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34616/ajmp.2022.15.8

Biblioteka Nauki

2231494