The paper is devoted to an analysis of English media discourse in terms of marking epistemic responsibility (ER). The study suggests 10 types of syntactic and lexical means used to mark a speaker’s responsibility for the proposition reliability. They are classified according to: (i) ER domain: high, low, disclaiming ER; (ii) level of the language system: syntactic or lexical; and (iii) lexico-grammatical features. The high ER domain is represented by two marker types: main clause and adverbials; low ER is marked by means of three types of markers: main clause, adverbials and modal verbs; disclaiming ER markers are most numerous, comprising five types of syntactic and lexical means, such as main clause, direct speech, adverbials, verbs and nouns. Thus, there tends to be a higher incidence of marking low ER or disclaiming it in English media discourse, whereas high ER is marked less often.

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标记英语媒体话语中的认知责任

本文致力于从标记认知责任（ER）的角度分析英语媒体话语。该研究建议使用 10 种句法和词汇手段来标记说话者对命题可靠性的责任。它们根据以下分类： (i) ER 域：高、低、免责声明；(ii) 语言系统的层次：句法或词汇；(iii) 词汇语法特征。高 ER 域由两种标记类型表示：主句和状语；低ER通过三种标记方式进行标记：主句、状语和情态动词；disclaiming ER 标记是最多的，包括五种类型的句法和词汇手段，如主句、直接引语、状语、动词和名词。因此，