Chapter 2
Linguistic background

Article outline

2.1The semantic interpretation of texts/dialogues
2.2Natural and theoretical interpretation
2.3Sense-interpretation as a natural process
2.4Sense-interpretation as a theoretical process
2.5Atomic Text
2.6Linguistic features of performative, world-constitutive and descriptive propositions
2.7Classification of world-constitutive verbs in relation to verb tenses in descriptive propositions
2.8World-constitutive vs. descriptive use of world-constitutive verbs
2.9The asymmetry of the world-constitutive and performative verbs
2.10The theoretical definition of text
2.11How we use Petőfi’s Atomic Text in our research
2.12Evidentiality
2.13Epistemicity
2.14How are certainty and uncertainty communicated?
2.15Whose certainty/uncertainty?
2.16Truth/falsehood
2.17Correlate-interpretation as a natural process
Notes

Chapter 2Linguistic background