Cognitive-cultural Aspects Underlying the Use of Evidential Markers in Galician
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This article focuses on the analysis of some underlying aspects that influence the use of evidential markers in Galician. After the presentation of the set of forms of Galician evidential system, we will focus on the influence that the cognitive factor of the territory of information (Kamio 1997) and the cultural factor of negative politeness (Brown & Levinson 1987) play on the decision to use evidential expressions. Regarding the territory of information, two conditions determine the presence of evidentiality: firstly, the subjective perception of the limits of the speaker's territory and, secondly, the perception of whether the speaker has the epistemic authority to assert the propositional content. As for the negative politeness, it is confirmed that it is a major determinant of the occurrence of evidentials in interaction. We will also show that Galician language, as a language spoken in a culture prone to negative politeness, possesses some of the verbal characteristics of distancing cultures (Haverkate 1994, 2000), which tend to use evidential markers as attenuating mechanisms.
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