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一什么是传信范畴传信范畴(evidentiality)公认的定义是,传信范畴是“说话者用来表达作为其说话基础的信息是通过何种方式获得的”~①(Willet,1988:55)。对于什么是传信范畴,主要有以下两种观点。一种观点是,传信范畴是一个句法范畴,只存在于世界上为数不多的语言中;另一种观点是,传信范畴是一个语义范畴,在大多数的语言中都存在,可以通过句法、词汇或者释义等来实现。这也就是所谓的广义传信范畴和狭义传信范畴。按照Chafe(1986)的说法,狭义的传信范畴
What is the category of transmission? The generally accepted definition of evidentiality is that the category of transmission is “what is the message that the speaker uses to express the basis of his or her speech?” (Willet 1988: 55). For what is the category of transmission, there are two main points. One view is that the category of transmission is a syntactic category that exists only in one of the few languages in the world. Another is that the category of transmission is a semantic category that exists in most languages and can be passed Syntax, vocabulary or interpretation to achieve. This is also the so-called category of generalized messaging and narrow categories of communication. According to Chafe (1986), the narrow category of communication