No doubt and related expressions
No doubt and related expressions
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毫无疑问及相关表达
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2007
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A. Simon
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A. Simon
认识副词“毫无疑问”字面上指的是没有怀疑，因此是完全确定的，但在文献中，它实际上被描述为表达不完全确定，或多或少与“很可能”同义。这篇文章使用语料库数据来考察无疑问的意义和语用用法，以及形式上和语义上密切相关的表达方式。毫无疑问，我也毫不怀疑。本文通过对历史语料库中的数据进行分析，试图解释确定性副词如“毫无疑问”实际上是如何表达某种怀疑或不确定的。语法化是这一意义发展的一个因素。但从理论上看，“确定性”和“不确定性”之间的关系需要一个超越单个词条描述的解释。这一贡献表明，必须在认知表达的修辞运用中寻求对这种关系的解释。
The epistemic adverb no doubt refers literally to absence of doubt, and hence to complete certainty, but it is actually described in the literature as expressing less than full certitude and as more or less synonymous with ‘very probably’. This contribution uses corpus data to examine the meaning and pragmatic uses of no doubt and of the formally and semantically closely related expressions there is no doubt and I have no doubt in present-day English. An explanation for how certainty adverbs such as no doubt have actually come to express some doubt or uncertainty is sought by considering data from historical corpora. It is argued that grammaticalization is a factor in this meaning development. But from a theoretical point of view the relationship between ‘certainty’ and ‘uncertainty’ needs an explanation which goes beyond the description of individual lexical items. This contribution shows that the explanation for such a relationship must be sought in the rhetorical exploitation of epistemic expressions.