Eintrag

Titel

Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages

Personen

Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss

Jahr

2012

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

de Gruyter

Ort

Berlin usw.

Reihe

Trends in linguistics

Band

243

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Verschiedene

Schlagwörter

Modalität
Modalpartikel
Modalverb

Beiträge

• Jędrzejowski: What is it that keeps the rein on quotative modals so tight? A cross-linguistic perspective
• Egg: Discourse particles at the semantics-pragmatics interface
• Modicom: The epistemological treatment of information and the interpersonal distribution of belief in language: German Modal Particles and the typological challenge
• Coniglio: Modal particles, speaker-hearer links, and illocutionary force

Abstract

Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of knowledge and belief of the addressee with the aim to optimally achieve understanding and an assessment of relevant information exchange. In languages such as German (and other Germanic languages outside of English), this may happen in covert terms. Main categories used for this purpose are modal adverbials ("modal particles") and modal verbs. Epistemic uses of modal verbs (like German sollen) cover evidential (reportative) information simultaneously providing the source of the information. Methodologically, description and explanation rest on Karl Bühler's concept of Origo as well as Roman Jakobson's concept of shifter. Typologically, East Asian languages such as Japanese pursue these semasiological fundaments far more closely than the European languages. In particular, Japanese has to mark the source of a statement in the declarative mode such that the reliability may be assessed by the hearer. The contributions in this collection provide insight into these modal techniques.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/78670