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  2. Stance (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Three types of stance are often distinguished: Epistemic stance is the expression (through verbal or other means) of a relative difference between interactants' relation to some knowledge (i.e. a doctor has the epistemic authority to answer medical questions), [5] while deontic stance is the expression of relative strength compared to another ...

  3. Epistemic modality - Wikipedia

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    As Lyons finds single lexemes of epistemic modals in English that are used in questions and under negation, he assumes that they must be part of a separate class of epistemic modality–the so called objective epistemic modality, in contrast to subjective epistemic modality—whose operators are considered to be taking the same position in the ...

  4. Andative and venitive - Wikipedia

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    Examples follow; note that complex morphophonological processes often obscure underlying forms, and that in some verbs - e.g. -lÉ”, "to enter" - the centrifugal direction is unmarked. CTFG:"centrifugal" (away from the speaker or topic) CTPT:"centripetal" (toward the speaker or topic)

  5. Metadiscourse - Wikipedia

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    This subject is especially prevalent in science writing, where it presents itself in many different forms such as hedges, boosters, and attitude markers. Metadiscourse contained within a written work can be any phrase that is included within a clause or sentence that goes beyond the subject itself, often to examine the purpose of the sentence ...

  6. Evidentiality - Wikipedia

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    For example, Japanese has inferential evidentials and reportive markers that are realized as suffixes on a variety of mainly verbal predicates, and as grammaticalized nouns. [6] In another example, Eastern Pomo has four evidential suffixes that are added to verbs: -ink’e (nonvisual sensory), -ine (inferential), -·le (hearsay), and -ya ...

  7. Ex-ballerina convicted of killing husband gets 20 years in ...

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    A former ballerina was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday in the 2020 shooting death of her estranged husband in Florida. CBS affiliate WTSP reports that Ashley Benefield was sentenced to 20 ...

  8. Insufficient sleep and high blood pressure may raise risk of ...

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    The association between sleep duration and cognitive function or brain imaging markers was absent in individuals with normal blood pressure. In other words, these results suggest that shorter ...

  9. An expanding coalition of health and consumer advocates is campaigning against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to the top U.S. health job over concerns about his activism against vaccines and ...