Modality in Mind - Couverture rigide

Nuyts, Jan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 100944722X ISBN 13 : 9781009447225

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Modality – the ways in which language can express grades of reality or truth – is the subject of a vast and long-established body of research. In this book, field-leader Jan Nuyts brings together twenty years of his research to offer a comprehensive, fully integrated view on areas of contentious debate within modality, from a functional and cognitive perspective. The book provides an empirically grounded, conceptual reanalysis of modality and related categories including evidentiality, volition, intention, directivity, subjectivity and mirativity. It argues for the dissolution of the category of modality and for an alternative division of the wider field of semantic notions at stake. The analysis also reflects on how to model the language faculty, and on the issue of language and thought. It is essential reading for researchers interested in the semantics of modality and in the implications of this domain for understanding the cognitive infrastructure for language and thought.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jan Nuyts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. His notable publications include Aspects of a Cognitive-Pragmatic Theory of Language (1992), Epistemic Modality, Language and Conceptualization (2001) and The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood (with van der Auwera, 2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 100944722X
• ISBN 13: 9781009447225
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie