عنوان المقال عربي
الشكلية الحكمية والدليلية في قصة إرنست همنغواي "ثلوج كليمنجارو
Abstract
Epistemic modality refers to the use of modality which is based on the speaker's evaluation and judgment in relation to the degree of confidence of the knowledge on the proposition. In the current study, Willett's (1988) taxonomy of Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality is applied to Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The study shows how the characters, in this short story, express their knowledge about the world around them. Speakers often make judgments based on perceptual, reported, or inferred evidences, thus the relationship between epistemicity and evidentiality is often close and difficult to demarcate. However, while epistemicity involves the speaker’s or writer’s evaluation, judgment and degree of commitment attached to the truth-value of a piece of information, evidentiality involves the speaker’s or writer’s assertion of the source and kind of evidence at their disposal (Mushin, 2001). The results of the study show that the characters use 'possible assertion' more than the other types of assertion depending most on 'reasoning-based' type sources, and for conceived truthfulness, most of them are 'potential' as characters
Keywords
Conceived Truthfulness.taxonomy . Epistemic
Recommended Citation
Adai, Salih Mahdi and Abdul-Hassan, Zamaan Tawfeeq
(2025)
"Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro,"
Uruk for Humanities: Vol. 17:
Iss.
1, Article 26.
Available at:
https://muthuruk.mu.edu.iq/journal/vol17/iss1/26
