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16:39 Nov 12, 2006 |
Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Science - Linguistics / Verbs | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 02:41 | ||||||
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5 | lack of involvement with respect to / lack of responsibility for ...the 'factuality' |
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3 +1 | makes no claim as to the 'truth' |
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3 | to make a disclaimer in respect of factual accuracy... |
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to make a disclaimer in respect of factual accuracy... Explanation: of the proposition under discussion:http://www.timcopsey.ukf.net/disclaimer.htm |
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makes no claim as to the 'truth' Explanation: In linguistics, some languages make a distinction between expressing a fact or situation of which they are certain, and use, for example in English, the indicative mood ( he is coming tonight), and expressing uncertainty about a fact or situation, and using the conditional or subjenctive mood (were he to come tonight... should he come tonight) The language being discussed has the option of a suffix indicating that the speaker is neutral as to the truth-value of a statement . Example sentence(s):
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lack of involvement with respect to / lack of responsibility for ...the 'factuality' Explanation: Although the second version is a much freer translation, it seem to be more what the experts would use. 'Factuality' is a term in philosophy and speech act theory. 24,600 refs for [factuality+proposition]: With ∥č̕əʔ∥ **the speaker ascribes responsibility** to a third person; **the factuality of the proposition** is based on second-hand evidence. ... www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/Outline/26.htm proposition. **The endorsement of a proposition** can differ in two respects; ... and thereby showing **the speaker’s reservation about endorsing the factuality** ... www.ling.lu.se/disseminations/pdf/46/Gronemeyer.pdf Under extra-vocalisation, **responsibility for the arguability of the proposition/proposition is assigned to some external voice**, typically some attributed ... www.grammatics.com/appraisal/AppraisalGuide/UnFramed/Stage5... |
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