Abstract Epistemicity in language encompasses various kinds of constructions and expressions that have to do with knowledge-related aspects of linguistic meaning (cf. Grzech, Karolina, Eva Schultze-Berndt and Henrik Bergqvist. 2020c. Knowing in interaction: an introduction. Folia Linguistica [this issue]). It includes some well-established categories, such as evidentiality and epistemic modality (Boye, Kasper. 2012. Epistemic meaning: A crosslinguistic and functional-cognitive study. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton), but also categories that have been less well described to-date. In this paper, I focus on one such category: the marking of epistemic authority, i.e. the encoding of “the right to know or claim” (Stivers, Tanya, Lorenza Mondada & Jakob Steensig. 2011b. Knowledge, morality and affiliation in social interaction. In Stivers et al. 2011a). I explore how the marking of epistemic authority can be documented and analysed in the context of linguistic fieldwork. The discussion is based on a case study of Upper Napo Kichwa, a Quechuan language spoken in the Ecuadorian Amazon that exhibits a rich paradigm of epistemic discourse markers, encoding meanings related to epistemic authority and distribution of knowledge between discourse participants. I describe and appraise the methodology for epistemic fieldwork used in the Upper Napo Kichwa documentation and description project. I give a detailed account of the different tools and methods of data collection, showing their strengths and weaknesses. I also discuss the decisions made at the different stages of the project and their implications for data collection and analysis. In discussing these issues, I extrapolate from the case study, proposing practical solutions for fieldwork-based research on epistemic markers.

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关于认知权威标记的实地考察：我们可以从不同类型的数据中学到什么

摘要语言的认识论涵盖了与语言意义的知识相关方面相关的各种构造和表达（参见Grzech，Karolina，Eva Schultze-Berndt和Henrik Bergqvist。2020c。互动中的认识：引言。Folia Linguistica [这个问题]）。它包括一些公认的类别，例如证据和认知方式（Boye，Kasper。2012年。Epistemic的意义：跨语言和功能认知研究。柏林：De Gruyter Mouton），但还没有得到充分描述的类别-日期。在本文中，我将重点放在这样一个类别上：认知权威的标记，即“知情权或索求权”的编码（Stivers，Tanya，Lorenza Mondada和JakobSteensig。2011b。社会互动中的知识，道德和隶属关系在Stivers等人2011a）中。我探索如何在语言实地考察的背景下记录和分析认知权威的标记。讨论基于厄瓜多尔亚马逊语中的一种Quechuan语言“ Upper Napo Kichwa”的案例研究，该语言表现出丰富的认知话语标记范式，编码了与认知权威有关的含义以及话语参与者之间的知识分布。我描述并评估了Napo Kichwa上层文档和描述项目中所使用的认识论野外调查方法。我详细介绍了数据收集的不同工具和方法，并说明了它们的优缺点。我还将讨论在项目的不同阶段做出的决策及其对数据收集和分析的影响。在讨论这些问题时，我从案例研究中推论得出，