INDICATEURS MÉDIATIFS EN ROUMAIN
MEDIATION INDICATORS IN ROMANIAN

Summary/Abstract: Our study focuses on conceptual and definitional boundaries of the term “médiativité“ compared to a related concept which is often associated to it, the English “evidentiality“. Having been proposed as an alternative to the French “évidentialité’ 'which would give rise to a misinterpretation, this concept shows only one partial superposition with “evidentiality“. In this context, the objectives of this study are: 1) to provide an overview of the theoretical concept médiativité 2) to identify and classify from a morphosyntactic point of view the mediatory indicators of the Romanian language. The starting assumption is that these indicators not only indicate the role of the type of source of knowledge, but they are doubled of an argumentative function and / or of a stylistic value; they may also be used to introduce in a veiled way the point of view of the speaking subject. This study is part of the research developed under the Project SMADEM - IDEI 1209 / 2007 financed by the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth.

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