In this paper we propose to demonstrate the analytical and critical potential of Discourse Studies for understanding identity constructs in a judicial decision on domestic violence.Taking as reference concept ideology sociocognitive framework (Van Dijk, 1995), that allows linking discourse, using enunciative-pragmatic categories, will analyse certain aspects decision, which how discourse struct...

In this paper, we show that future morphemes in Greek and Italian have purely epistemic non-predictive readings, behaving as equivalent to English must. We call this use ‘epistemic future’. Epistemic future appears to have an evidential component: it cannot be used if the speaker knows, either via visual perception, or via a report, that the prejacent proposition p is true. This renders epistem...

The article deals with a Lithuanian mirative construction based on the present active participle continuative and progressive prefix be-. In grammar it has been described as tense form or (more recently) member of evidential system, but is here dealt in its own right. On basis corpus search authors attempt to define place among constructions containing be-, well formal functional properties lex...