Factuality and intonation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10140691 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Oakeshott-Taylor (University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 1984-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022226700009828 |
| OpenAlex | W2096147206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
Starting from the well-known difference between I ‵thought he was married (which he is) – where the complement is given a factual interpretation – and I thought he was ‵married (but he isn’t) – which is counterfactual – this article examines the syntactic, semantic, contextual and prosodic conditions under which factual and counterfactual interpretations can emerge. Factuality is distinguished from factivity, and concerns a person’s (usually the speaker’s) subjective assessment of whether the propositional content of a sentence or sentence fragment conforms or conflicts with his perception of reality. The modal nature of factuality is stressed, as is the contribution of tense and intonation to the emergence of factuality interpretations
Complement (music · Counterfactual conditional · Counterfactual thinking · Interpretation (philosophy · Intonation (linguistics · Linguistics · Perception · Semantic interpretation · Sentence · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 1992 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |