Evidentiality through reported speech: Pragma-linguistic factors affecting its reliability

This study focuses on reportative evidential that contains statements of a specific and commonly known individual with interlocutors regarding the quality evidence s/he claimed to have, his/her trustworthiness as person, linguistic markers, turn designs, emotional state, epistemic authority, factors which determine reliability information vouched through reported speech. We collected 28 conversations in informants were asked convey derived from someone well or weakly known. Topics chiefly related events expected occur, films other informative assertions. Then, respondents delivered their main reasons about (not) trusting speech/speaker modals within RS assessment part. They urged share common conclusions its reliability. found out epistemological speech originally by well-known person is crucially speaker’s usual shown sincerity, words chosen, while competency evidence, can define “first-hand” not worth considering.