Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages
Description
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.
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2 - Contributors?????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 7]
3 - Introduction: Theory of mind elements across languages?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 11]
4 - Part I. The foundation: speaker and hearer deixis, shifter, and double displacement???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 47]
4.1 - Epistemicity, evidentiality, and Theory of Mind (ToM)???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 49]
4.2 - Illocutive force is speaker and information source concern. What type of syntax does the representation of speaker deixis require? Templates vs. derivational structure??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 77]
4.3 - Exploring the Theory of Mind interface?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 119]
4.4 - The distribution of knowledge in (un)acceptable questions???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 157]
4.5 - Traces of Bühler's semiotic legacy in modern linguistics?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 221]
5 - Part II. Instances of deixis and origo in sundry languages?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 261]
5.1 - Modal particles, speaker-hearer links, and illocutionary force?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 263]
5.2 - Discourse particles at the semantics-pragmatics interface???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 307]
5.3 - Modality in the Romance languages: Modal verbs and modal particles?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 345]
5.4 - The epistemological treatment of information and the interpersonal distribution of belief in language: German modal particles and the typological challenge???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 371]
5.5 - On mood, evidentiality, and person effects?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 393]
5.6 - Illocutionary force and modal particle in the syntax of Japanese?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 415]
5.7 - What is it that keeps the rein on quotative modals so tight? A cross-linguistic perspective???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 435]
6 - General index???????????????????????????????????????? [Seite 465]
