Eksempler på tentativeness

• The language features investigated are those which have to do with the relative tentativeness of an utterance.

• She may rightly reject the wisdom of striving for tentativeness or non-belief.

• The modified claims that believers should at least strive towards tentativeness or towards non-belief are also inadequate.

• As we will see in section 3, the past tense is used here for reasons of discourse tentativeness, although it may also be meant to be sarcastic.

• We discuss the nature of discourse tentativeness, the pragmatic reasons for using an attitudinal modal past form, and the observation that complement clauses of thought sometimes yield several modal readings.

• By using this hedge, a speaker can add the nuance of tentativeness to an utterance, which has the effect of evading commitment and softening the statement.

• I do not share the view expressed as to the tentativeness of paragraph 10 of the communiqué.

• I have never understood the tentativeness about freight on this high-speed line.