Evidentiality and other types readjusted: Interpersonal modality revisited
Interpersonal modality, bifurcating modalization and modulation, is an important construct of interpersonal meaning in the architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics. By meticulously reviewing relevant studies from the perspectives of traditional modality and modality’s semantic map, three resp...
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| description | Interpersonal modality, bifurcating modalization and modulation, is an important construct of interpersonal meaning in the architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics. By meticulously reviewing relevant studies from the perspectives of traditional modality and modality’s semantic map, three respects with respect to the system of interpersonal modality have been supplemented. Firstly, modalization, being subcategorized into possibility and usuality, is suggested to entertain evidentiality from the traditional sense. Secondly, considering the delicacy of the system of interpersonal modality, possibility in modalization should be further categorized into epistemic and root possibility; necessity as one subtype of modulation, superseding the original obligation in modulation, is subclassified into obligation and permission; inclination, being the other subtype of modulation, should be specified as the superordinate of volition and ability. Thirdly, the shifting of modal meanings from root possibility to epistemic possibility in modalization and from inclination to necessity in modulation should be clearly specified as far as language evolvement is concerned. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d718c1c5f8124fc3bef3cbf10fef381b2023-06-01T09:43:14ZengDe GruyterJournal of World Languages2169-82602021-12-018111914010.1515/jwl-2021-0011Evidentiality and other types readjusted: Interpersonal modality revisitedZhou Jiangping0School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaInterpersonal modality, bifurcating modalization and modulation, is an important construct of interpersonal meaning in the architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics. By meticulously reviewing relevant studies from the perspectives of traditional modality and modality’s semantic map, three respects with respect to the system of interpersonal modality have been supplemented. Firstly, modalization, being subcategorized into possibility and usuality, is suggested to entertain evidentiality from the traditional sense. Secondly, considering the delicacy of the system of interpersonal modality, possibility in modalization should be further categorized into epistemic and root possibility; necessity as one subtype of modulation, superseding the original obligation in modulation, is subclassified into obligation and permission; inclination, being the other subtype of modulation, should be specified as the superordinate of volition and ability. Thirdly, the shifting of modal meanings from root possibility to epistemic possibility in modalization and from inclination to necessity in modulation should be clearly specified as far as language evolvement is concerned.https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2021-0011epistemicityevidentialityinterpersonal modalitysystemic functional linguistics |
| spellingShingle | Zhou Jiangping Evidentiality and other types readjusted: Interpersonal modality revisited Journal of World Languages epistemicity evidentiality interpersonal modality systemic functional linguistics |
| title | Evidentiality and other types readjusted: Interpersonal modality revisited |
| title_full | Evidentiality and other types readjusted: Interpersonal modality revisited |
| title_fullStr | Evidentiality and other types readjusted: Interpersonal modality revisited |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evidentiality and other types readjusted: Interpersonal modality revisited |
| title_short | Evidentiality and other types readjusted: Interpersonal modality revisited |
| title_sort | evidentiality and other types readjusted interpersonal modality revisited |
| topic | epistemicity evidentiality interpersonal modality systemic functional linguistics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2021-0011 |
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