商品描述
Modality - the ways in which language can express grades of reality or truth - is the subject of a vast and long-established body of research. In this book, field-leader Jan Nuyts brings together twenty years of his research to offer a comprehensive, fully integrated view on areas of contentious debate within modality, from a functional and cognitive perspective. The book provides an empirically grounded, conceptual reanalysis of modality and related categories including evidentiality, volition, intention, directivity, subjectivity and mirativity. It argues for the dissolution of the category of modality and for an alternative division of the wider field of semantic notions at stake. The analysis also reflects on how to model the language faculty, and on the issue of language and thought. It is essential reading for researchers interested in the semantics of modality and in the implications of this domain for understanding the cognitive infrastructure for language and thought.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
模態（Modality）—語言表達現實或真理的程度的方式—是廣泛且歷史悠久的研究主題。在這本書中，領域領導者 Jan Nuyts 整合了他二十年的研究，提供了一個全面且完全整合的觀點，針對模態中有爭議的辯論領域，從功能性和認知的角度進行探討。這本書提供了一個以實證為基礎的模態及相關類別（包括證據性、意志、意圖、指向性、主觀性和驚訝性）的概念性再分析。書中主張解散模態類別，並提出對更廣泛的語義概念領域的替代劃分。該分析還反思如何建模語言能力，以及語言與思維之間的問題。這是對於有興趣於模態語義及其對理解語言和思維的認知基礎的研究者來說，必讀的書籍。
