Representing time: an essay on temporality as modality
Auteur :
Jaszczolt, Kasia M.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199214440
Date de publication :
26 févr. 2009
Dimensions :
23,3 x 15,6 x 1,2 cm
Poids :
325 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book offers a new approach to the representation of meaning of temporally-located utterances and discourses. Temporality, the author suggests, should be taken to mean degrees of certainty, understood in turn as degrees of acceptability concerning the eventuality referred to in the speaker's utterance.