Evidentiality ‘In’ and ‘As’ Context

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3757
dc.contributor.author	Tantucci Vittorio
dc.contributor.author	Wang Aiqing
dc.title	Evidentiality ‘In’ and ‘As’ Context. Corpus-Based Insights About the Mandarin V-过 guo Construction
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	In this paper we argue that evidentiality can be a category of a linguistic system that emerges from the intersection between form, usage and ‘contextual situatedness’. We provide a multivariate corpus-based case study about the usage of the V-过 guo construction in written Mandarin, and show how the text types in which the chunk appears significantly contribute to determine its pragmatic usage and its emergent meaning grounded in shared knowledge and collective recognition. This approach sheds new light on two critical issues. The first is that evidentiality is an important grammatical category of documentary, factual and academic prose in Mandarin Chinese. The second, much broader, claim of this paper is that generalisations about grammatical/semantic categories need to account for the usage of specific items in context. In this sense, ‘physical and sociocultural situatedness’ is as important a dimension as form and meaning in order to define categorial membership.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-10-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-02-14
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-407-3/evidentiality-in-and-as-context/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-406-6/003
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-407-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-406-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Chinese
dc.subject	Chinese
dc.subject	Context
dc.subject	Context
dc.subject	Corpus-based
dc.subject	Corpus-based
dc.subject	Evidentiality
dc.subject	Evidentiality
dc.subject	Multifactorial
dc.subject	Multifactorial

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Evidentiality ‘In’ and ‘As’ Context

Corpus-Based Insights About the Mandarin V-过 guo Construction

Vittorio Tantucci Lancaster University, UK

Aiqing Wang Lancaster University, DELC

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In this paper we argue that evidentiality can be a category of a linguistic system that emerges from the intersection between form, usage and ‘contextual situatedness’. We provide a multivariate corpus-based case study about the usage of the V-过 guo construction in written Mandarin, and show how the text types in which the chunk appears significantly contribute to determine its pragmatic usage and its emergent meaning grounded in shared knowledge and collective recognition. This approach sheds new light on two critical issues. The first is that evidentiality is an important grammatical category of documentary, factual and academic prose in Mandarin Chinese. The second, much broader, claim of this paper is that generalisations about grammatical/semantic categories need to account for the usage of specific items in context. In this sense, ‘physical and sociocultural situatedness’ is as important a dimension as form and meaning in order to define categorial membership.

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Oct. 14, 2020

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Feb. 14, 2020

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Keywords: Chinese • Evidentiality • Context • Corpus-based • Multifactorial

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