ABSTRACT Using conversation data from the British National Corpus, this paper investigates the role played by relational functions in the use of evidentiality in interaction, and how such functions interact with the ‘core’ function of evidentiality: to signal access to a source of evidence for or against a proposition. Further, this study looks into the themes authority, cooperation, and negotiation, which have been discussed in previous studies of evidentiality in interaction, and at how these themes manifest and, crucially, intersect with one another in the use of evidential markers. The qualitative analysis of the data finds relational functions to be a highly salient effect of evidential marking in conversation; while evidential markers appear to place focus on the informational content of a proposition, the effect achieved by their presence in the data of this study is found to be allowing the speaker to negotiate and manifest authority in a cooperative manner.

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证据在交互中的信息和关系功能

摘要 本文使用来自英国国家语料库的对话数据，研究了关系函数在交互中使用证据中所扮演的角色，以及这些函数如何与证据的“核心”功能相互作用：表明对证据来源的访问或反对一个提议。此外，本研究探讨了在先前交互证据研究中讨论过的主题权威、合作和谈判，以及这些主题如何在证据标记的使用中表现出来，最重要的是如何相互交叉。数据的定性分析发现，关系功能是谈话中证据标记的一个非常显着的效果；虽然证据标记似乎将重点放在命题的信息内容上，