Epistemiškumo adverbialai lietuvių ir anglų žiniasklaidos diskurse

Adverbial Markers of Epistemicity in Lithuanian and English Journalistic Discourse The categories of evidentiality and epistemic modality have garnered considerable traction over the last few decades. The former is used to indicate the source of the speaker's or writer's knowledge, while the latter evaluates information in terms of possibility or necessity. Together they form the category of epistemicity. Although evidentiality and epistemic modality can be expressed in a number of ways, the paper is concerned only with adverbials. The goal is to investigate a number of adverbial markers of epistemicity in Lithuanian and English journalistic discourse, more specifically news reports and opinion articles. The research includes a quantitative analysis to determine the frequency of evidential and epistemic adverbials cross-linguistically and across different news genres as well as a qualitative analysis to establish the functions of the markers. For the purposes of the study a new bilingual comparative corpus was compiled, which contains articles from the Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos rytas and the British newspaper The Guardian. The findings reveal that in both languages writers indicate information sources and provide epistemic judgements more frequently in opinion articles than news reports and that adverbial markers in the former are significantly more multifunctional