Discourse Functions of the Japanese Epistemic Modal DESYOO

Temporalizing Modal Epistemic Logic

Timed Modal Epistemic Logic, tMEL, is a newly introduced logical framework for reasoning about the modeled agent's knowledge. The framework, derived from the study of Justi cation Logic, is adapted from the traditional Modal Epistemic Logic, MEL, to serve as a logically non-omniscient epistemic logic and dealing with problems where the the temporal constraint is an unavoidable factor. In this p...

Timed Modal Epistemic Logic

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

On the nature of the epistemic readings of the Italian modal verbs: the relationship between propositionality and inferential discourse relations

The present contribution deals with the epistemic readings of the Italian modal verbs dovere ('must') and potere ('may'/'can'). The two verbs show striking differences — both quantitative and qualitative — with respect to the possibility of epistemic interpretation, differences which have gone so far completely unnoticed in the — rather scarce — semantic literature on modal verbs in Italian. Ev...

on the relationship between using discourse markers and the quality of expository and argumentative academic writing of iranian english majors

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...