Beyond modality and hedging: A dialogic view of the language of intersubjective stance

This article offers a framework for analysing the linguistic resources of intersubjective positioning, meanings which have elsewhere been treated under such headings as modality, polarity, evidentiality, hedging, concession, intensification, attribution and consequentiality. Drawing inspiration from Bakhtin/Volosinov's dialogic perspective, it proposes that this lexico-grammatically diverse grouping can be brought together on discourse semantic...