Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

epistemic marker

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

Syllables: epis-temic -mark-er
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

epistemic markers (plural)

Questions

What does epistemic marker mean?: 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.

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