From immediate to extended intersubjectification: a gradient approach to intersubjective awareness and semasiological change

Tantucci, Vittorio

doi:10.1017/langcog.2015.26

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“…In the latter case, Sp/w's utterance is based on extended-intersubjectivity (cf. Tantucci 2013Tantucci , 2017 and construes an 'interested' joint project at the epistemic level, rather than the physical one. This paper is structured as follows: In section 2 I give a general overview of CAP theory and the new 'pragmatic turn' in cognitive sciences and evolutionary psychology.…”

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An evolutionary approach to semasiological change: Overt influence attempts through the development of the Mandarin 吧-ba particle

Tantucci

2017

Journal of Pragmatics

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This paper focuses on the pragmatics of overt influence attempts (cf. Reich 2011, 2012; Tantucci 2016a) and their cognitive relationship with semasiological change. As a case study, the present analysis is centred on the recent history of the Mandarin 吧-ba sentence-final particle, starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) up to its present day usage. Corpus-based data from the CCL Peking corpus highlight a progressive shift from an original directive usage towards a later assertive employment. In the latter case, speaker/writer 'invites' addressee/reader to agree with his/her statement on the basis of what is 'socially' or 'interpersonally' expected to be true/sensible. The cooperatively 'expected action' originally prompted by the particle, will then turn into cooperatively 'expected certainty' in later usages. From an evolutionary-psychological angle, at every stage of the cline it emerges the speaker/writer's consistent attempt to exert social influence on addressee/reader in the form of an 'interested' co-act proposal (cf. Reich 2011, Tantucci 2016b).

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An evolutionary approach to semasiological change: Overt influence attempts through the development of the Mandarin 吧-ba particle

Tantucci

2017

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“…Tantucci 2013Tantucci , 2015c; see also Norrick 2000 on the gradient relationship between re-telling and shared knowledge within a community). However, it is shown in section 4.1 that IE and other indirect evidentials entail suspended-factuality, as they do not encode SP/W's subjective commitment towards the factuality of P. For this reason, we need to bear in mind that the IE proposition P [such evangelicals seem to be successful in worldly pursuits] in (15) above is to be considered suspended-factual.…”

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“…profiling the awareness of a specific addressee -or extended intersubjectivity (E-I) -i.e. referring to a more general 3rd party (3rdP) in society (Tantucci 2013(Tantucci , 2015a(Tantucci , 2015c. In the latter case, presuppositions may prompt new factual propositions based on the epistemic assumption of 3rdP as an abstract interlocutor who is expected to potentially know or justify the factuality of P in a particular context.…”

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“…To answer this question, I adopt a theoretical and methodological framework proposed in Tantucci (2013Tantucci ( , 2015c tackling the gradient relationship between immediate (I-I) and extended intersubjectivity (E-I). The former (I-I) needs to be intended as the intersubjective dimension where a SP/W profiles his/her awareness of a specific AD/R, generally present during the here-and-now of the discourse.…”

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Textual factualization: The phenomenology of assertive reformulation and presupposition during a speech event

Tantucci

2016

Journal of Pragmatics

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This work provides an operational framework to study the unfolding of new factual propositions out of originally suspended-factual (Narrog 2009, Tantucci 2015b) statements during a speech event. In particular, this model is centered on the dynamic relationship between cognitive control (i.e. Kan et al. 2013) and epistemic certainty. A speaker/writer's epistemic inclination towards the factuality of a proposition P occurs throughout a text, either in the form of the assertive reformulation of an originally suspended-factual proposition P, or in the form of a presupposition trigger also turning P into a new factual statement. I refer to this phenomenon as textual factualization (TF) and I provide corpus data from the British National Corpus (BNC) to demonstrate it to be a frequent mechanism where an originally suspended-factual proposition [apparently P] is subsequently factualized both in written and spoken texts. I argue that TF instantiates as a form of interference/misinformation effect (cf. Ecker et al. 2015) as it triggers the qualitative alteration of an event memory by partially overwriting an original memory trace: from [apparently P] to [apparently P].

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“…As discussed in Lazard (1999Lazard ( , 2001; see also Mushin 2001;Tantucci 2013 andTantucci 2015c), indirect evidential constructions merging together reportative, Toward a typology of constative speech acts inferential, and mirative 14 meanings are felicitously paraphrased as apparently, it seems, and as it appears. This type of evidential function is referred to in different ways.…”

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Toward a typology of constative speech acts: Actions beyond evidentiality, epistemic modality, and factuality

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2016

Intercultural Pragmatics

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The present study joins the long-running debate about the semanticpragmatic distinction of the three domains of epistemic modality, evidentiality, and factuality. In particular, this work aims at providing both a theoretical and operational framework to investigate what type of speech act is at stake when a speaker/writer alternatively decides to mark a proposition as an epistemic modal, an evidential, or a factual construction. In fact, three basic types of illocutionary force will be shown to determine the modal marking of a constative speech act: evaluational (EvF(p)), presentative (PrF(p)), and assertive (AsF(p)) force. This classification is based on a set of tests that can effectively address either grammaticalized constructions or pragmatic strategies, independent from the specificity of the item under enquiry. This approach is first used to disentangle the controversial meaning of MUST-type predicates and then further theorized as a speech-act based framework of epistemic disambiguation.

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From immediate to extended intersubjectification: a gradient approach to intersubjective awareness and semasiological change

Abstract: This paper provides a theoretical and methodological contribution to the heated debate on intersubjectivity and intersubjectification

Cited by 41 publications

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An evolutionary approach to semasiological change: Overt influence attempts through the development of the Mandarin 吧-ba particle

An evolutionary approach to semasiological change: Overt influence attempts through the development of the Mandarin 吧-ba particle

Textual factualization: The phenomenology of assertive reformulation and presupposition during a speech event

Toward a typology of constative speech acts: Actions beyond evidentiality, epistemic modality, and factuality

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