@article{Hassler2015, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Ram{\´o}n Campos P{\´e}rez: un te{\´o}rico del lenguaje dejado en el olvido}, series = {Censuras, exclusiones y silencios en la historia de la ling{\"u}{\´i}stica hisp{\´a}nica}, volume = {36}, journal = {Censuras, exclusiones y silencios en la historia de la ling{\"u}{\´i}stica hisp{\´a}nica}, editor = {Calero Vaquero, Mar{\´i}a Luisa and Subirats R{\"u}ggeberg, Carlos}, issn = {1139-8736}, pages = {73 -- 94}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Ram{\´o}n Campos was very much influenced by the sensationist views current in French linguistic theory and developed these further, even to the point of drawing radical conclusions. In his opinion, abstraction is solely possible by using words. According to his ideas, articulated spoken language is the essential prerequisite for higher thought processes. Furthermore, the adjectives which name characteristics are derived from nouns. Memory and the formation of general ideas are the result of the "gift of the word" and by no means are actions of the human mind. Sign language, which was accepted in French linguistic theory as a precursor of spoken language, is not enough for carrying out abstractions. The tendency of thought to concretise contributes to the dissemination of abstractions. No dependent or referential word can be understood as the original word. He also developed these ideas in his treatise De la desigualdad personal en la sociedad civil ('On personal inequality in civil society'), where they became the basis of a new ethics of communication. This paper intends to explore the concept of the "gift of the word", which according to Campos is the only instrument of abstraction and analysis. Applying this concept, human thought can be divided into two capacities or powers: imagination and memory.}, language = {es} } @article{Hassler2015, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Evidentiality and the expression of speaker's stance in Romance languages and German}, series = {Discourse studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk}, volume = {17}, journal = {Discourse studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {1461-4456}, doi = {10.1177/1461445614564522}, pages = {182 -- 209}, year = {2015}, abstract = {In recent years, the category of evidentiality has also come into use for the description of Romance languages and of German. This has been contingent on a change in its interpretation from a typological category to a semantic-pragmatic category, which allows an application to languages lacking specialised morphemes for the expression of evidentiality. We consider evidentiality to be a structural dimension of grammar, the values of which are expressed by types of constructions that code the source of information which a speaker imparts. If we look at the situation in Romance languages and in German, drawing a boundary between epistemic modality and evidentiality presents problems that are difficult to solve. Adding markers of the source of the speaker's knowledge often limits the degree of responsibility of the speaker for the content of the utterance. Evidential adverbs are a frequently used means of marking the source of the speaker's knowledge. The evidential meaning is generalised to marking any source of knowledge, what can be regarded as a result of a process of pragmaticalisation. The use of certain means which also carry out evidential markings can even contribute to the blurring of the different kinds of evidentiality. German also has modal verbs which in conjunction with the perfect tense of the verb have a predominantly evidential use (sollen and wollen). But even here the evidential marking is not without influence on the modality of the utterance. The Romance languages, however, do not have such specialised verbs for expressing evidentiality in certain contexts. To do this, they mark evidentiality - often context bound - by verb forms such as the conditional and the imperfect tense. This article shall contrast the different architectures used in expressing evidentiality in German and in the Romance languages.}, language = {en} }