epistemic marker
epistemic marker noun: a linguistic element, such as a word or phrase, that indicates the speaker's or writer's attitude or degree of certainty regarding the truth or likelihood of a statement.
Noun
epistemic marker (plural epistemic markers)
- A linguistic element, such as a word or phrase, that indicates the speaker's or writer's attitude or degree of certainty regarding the truth or likelihood of a statement.
- For epistemic markers we adopt an empirically-driven approach and utilize the epistemic markers identified in a corpus of dialogical argumentation by Hautli-Janisz et al. We consider expressions such as ‘I think’, ‘it is believed’ and ‘in my opinion’ to be epistemic.2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 6
Forms of epistemic marker
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Questions about epistemic marker
- What does epistemic marker mean?
- Epistemic marker means a linguistic element, such as a word or phrase, that indicates the speaker's or writer's attitude or degree of certainty regarding the truth or likelihood of a statement.
- What part of speech is epistemic marker?
- Epistemic marker is a noun.
- What is the plural of epistemic marker?
- The plural of epistemic marker is epistemic markers.
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