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

Abstract

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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“…profiles the awareness of emotions/beliefs of a distinct individual who is generally present during the speech event (this is the case of (7a) above), extended intersubjectivity (E-I) in turn is based on the awareness of a general social persona's or 3rd party (3rdP) and his/her 'inferred' reactions to the utterance (cf. Tantucci 2013Tantucci , 2015aTantucci , 2016bTantucci , 2016d. The shift from I-I to E-I tends to unfold unidirectionally along a cline of semasiological change and will be discussed in greater detail in the corpus-based study in section 4.…”

“…[Directive] OIA is now realised based on construals of extended intersubjectivity E-I (cf. Tantucci 2016bTantucci , 2016dTantucci , 2017. Here it is an assumed 3rd party (3rdP) who is supposed to join this epistemic co-action of concluding that there are more than ten animals (here).…”

“…De Smet 2012) and will impinge on two different construals of intersubjectivity: from an originally Ad/r's oriented one encoding immediate intersubjectivity I-I, to a more recent 3rd party's oriented one, construing extended intersubjectivity E-I (cf. Tantucci 2013Tantucci , 2015aTantucci , 2016bTantucci , 2016dGuardamagna 2017; Van Olmen 2017).…”

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“…Зачастую вербальное оформление рекламного дискурса (то, как пре-подносится факт, а не сам факт) косвенно, в со-вокупности создает положительный образ про-дукта и в дальнейшем влияет на действия по-купателей . Важную роль в таких случаях играют пресуппозиции -имплицитные умозаключения о фоновой ин-формации, которая принимается как данность Tantucci, 2016;Schwarz, 2016]. Это явление требует более пристального изу-чения в связи с широким применением в ре-кламном дискурсе.…”

Presuppositions in Communicative Strategies of Advertising Mini Texts

“…Зачастую вербальное оформление рекламного дискурса (то, как преподносится факт, а не сам факт) косвенно, в совокупности создает положительный образ продукта и в дальнейшем влияет на действия покупателей . Важную роль в таких случаях играют пресуппозицииимплицитные умозаключения о фоновой информации, которая принимается как данность Tantucci, 2016;Schwarz, 2016]. Это явление требует более пристального изучения в связи с широким применением в рекламном дискурсе.…”