Interpersonal evidentiality: The Mandarin V-过 guo construction and other evidential systems beyond the ‘source of information’

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

“…Consider the pair of the intersubjective idiom you got to be joking reported below: Quite differently, in (11), you gotta be joking functions as an E-I construction (cf. Tantucci, 2013Tantucci, , 2014b as the intersubjective construal of the chunk is not limited to the speech event and not exclusively addressed to a specific AD/R. With this performative expression, one of the dwarves expresses a feeling of incredulity towards an unexpected event, rather replying to a previous utterance.…”

“…The theoretical framework of this study is based on Tantucci's (2013Tantucci's ( , 2014b distinction between immediate and extended dimensions of intersubjectivity. While the former is bound to the mutual awareness of speaker/writer and addressee/hearer (IMMEDIATE INTERSUBJECTIVITY, I-I), the latter includes an assumed third party (specific or generic) who has a social bearing on the utterance (EXTENDED INTERSUBJECTIVITY, E-I) (cf.…”

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

“…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.…”

“…I define this online process as textual factualization (TF) and demonstrate it to be surprisingly frequent in contexts where an originally suspended-fatual proposition [apparently P] -encoding interpersonal evidentiality (IE) (cf. Tantucci 2013Tantucci , 2015a) -is subsequently turned into a newly factual(-ized) proposition both in written and spoken texts.…”

“…More specifically, in 4.1 I first show the suspended-factual status of indirect evidentials (cf. Willett 1988;Aikhenvald 2004;Tantucci 2013). …”