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.
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