Clift2006
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Clift2006 |
| Author(s) | Rebecca Clift |
| Title | Indexing stance: Reported speech as an interactional evidential |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Epistemics, Reported Speech, Evidentiality, Stance, Deixis, Interaction |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Journal | Journal of Sociolinguistics |
| Volume | 10 |
| Number | 5 |
| Pages | 569-595 |
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Abstract
The notion of linguistic stance as a non-grammaticalized form of evidentiality is here explored through an investigation of reported speech in English interaction. Reported speech is found to be one of a variety of resources with which speakers lay claim to epistemic priority vis-`a-vis recipients. Such resources are not identifiable as stance markers independently of the sequential contexts in which they appear; sequential position is shown to be central in providing at once a constraint on what can be said and a resource to exploit in saying it. Resources dependent on sequential position to index stance are deemed to be interactional evidentials to distinguish them from the well-documented stand-alone evidentials. Interactional and stand-alone evidentials, as forms of deixis, are directed to the orientations of epistemic authority and accountability respectively; their distinct means of marking evidentiality are grounded in the motivation to be explicit with regard to accountability and inexplicit with regard to authority.
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