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topic in modern linguistics by Boas at the beginning  of  the  twentieth  century,  evidentiality  has  been  studied  from  different theoretical  perspectives.  In  this  section  the  major  theoretical  perspectives  to evidentiality  including  typological  perspective,  cognitive  perspective,  pragmatic perspective, systemic-functional perspective and other perspectives will be reviewed. Evidentiality  has  been  widely  investigated  cross-linguistically  from  typological perspective, which has demonstrated that evidentiality as a linguistic phenomenon is a universal  feature  and  is  therefore  pervasive  in  almost  all  the  world's  languages. However,  evidential  systems  vary  from  language  to  language  in  the  number  of information sources conveyed and in the way they are marked.  The  original  interest  in  this  linguistic  phenomenon  dates  back  to  the  studies  of the American Indian languages, particularly those of the northern parts of California, where  the  marking  of  evidentiality  through  the  use  of  verb  suffixes  is  widespread. Franz  Boas  (1911:443)  is  taken  as  the  first  to  use  the  term  'evidential'  in  his grammatical  description  of  Kwakiutl.  He  states  that  'To  the  suffixes  expressing subjective relation belong those expressing subjective knowledge'. However, he uses it only in the meaning of 'something for which there is evidence', namely, in the way similar  to  'inferred  on  the  basis  of  visible  traces'.  In  spite  of  this,  the  study  of evidentials has been gradually turned to some other North American languages since then, yet no one has carried out a comprehensive treatment of them. Up to Jakobson (1957),  the  term  'evidential'  was  treated  as  a  category  broader  than  inference. Jakobson  is  also  the  first  scholar  to  sharply  differentiate  between  mood  and evidentiality as independent linguistic categories.  
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Chapter Three Theoretical Framework .......... 57 
3.1 Introduction ..... 57 
3.2 Theoretical Foundations .......... 57
3.3 Motivations for Using Evidential Markers in Academic Discourse .......... 83 
3.4 A Cognitive-pragmatic Perspective on Evidentiality ...... 84
3.5 Summary ......... 91 
Chapter Four Research Methodology ...... 93 
4.1 Introduction ..... 93 4.2 Data Collection ....... 93 
4.3 Data Analysis .......... 95 
4.4 Classification and Linguistic Representations of Evidentiality .......... 96
4.5 Analytical Framework of the Present Study ......... 107 
4.6 Summary ....... 108 
Chapter Five Indexing Writer's Epistemological Stance ..... 109 
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