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A Semantic Study of Stance Adverbswith Reference to the Language of Emotionin Katherine Mansfield'sshort fiction Bliss | ||
| for humanities sciences al qadisiya | ||
| Article 1, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 25-42 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Sawsan Kareem Al-Saaidi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| AbstractEnglish has a rich supply of grammatical devices used to express “stance” which can be defined as the linguistic mechanism used by speakers/writers to convey their personal feelings, assessments, attitudes, judgments, or commitment about the proposition. The paper explores adverbs used to mark stance. By discussing the entire system of stance adverbs , the paper aims at investigating this kind of adverbs semantically. Stance adverbs can be classified into three types epistemic, attitudinal and style. ''Epistemic stance'' is defined as the degree of certainty or evidence towards the content whereas “attitudinal stance” conveys more personal feelings, and “style stance” relates to the speaker’s or writer’s comment on the way in which the information in a clause is presented. The analysis shows that the texts of psycho-narration and free indirect discourse are rich in emotional language beside the extensive use of epistemic stance adverbs | ||
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