Particules/adverbes exprimant la modalité épistémique : Vers la comparaison des systèmes des langues tchèque et française

• Authors: Vybíhalová Michaela

Title variants

EN

ARTICLES/ADVERBS EXPRESSING EPISTEMIC MODALITY : TOWARDS THE COMPARISON OF CZECH AND FRENCH LANGUAGE SYSTEMS

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Epistemic modality represents one of the linguistic modality expressing the speaker’s certainty evaluation of the proposition’s validity. The French and Czech approaches are compared to show the common bases for this linguistic matter. One way of expressing the epistemic modality, among others, are the little words that the French system calls epistemic modal adverbs, while the Czech terminology defines them as particles. These two systems (French epistemic adverbs and Czech epistemic particles) are compared from the point of view of their semantico-syntactic characteristics and their existing classifications based on the level of certainty the adverbs/particles express. To gain a better insight into the functioning of epistemic adverbs/particles the analysis of two French adverbs (vraisemblablement, apparemment) and two Czech particles (pravděpodobně, patrně) has been conducted and confirmed the important influence of context and subjectivity on their semantic interpretation.

Keywords

FR

modalité épistémique; adverbes; particules; degré de certitude

EN

epistemic modality; adverbs; particles; degree of certainty

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Special Issue: Le monde de la litérrature
• Pages: 265-273
• Physical description: Institut de Langues Romanes, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Bohême du Sud

Contributors

author

Vybíhalová Michaela

• Faculté des Lettres, Université de Bohême du Sud