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Esther Pascual

Fictive interaction within the sentence: A communicative type of fictivity in grammar

Keywords: fictive interaction, fictivity, face-to-face conversation, direct speech, communicative metonymy, intersubjectivity

This paper examines the intersection of language, interaction and cognition. Specifically, a communicative type of fictivity is discussed, which I call fictive verbal interaction or simply fictive interaction (Pascual 2002). This constitutes a self-sufficient discourse unit conceptualized within a non-factive communicative occurrence, which functions syntactically and semantically as a grammatical constituent. Attested examples at different syntactic levels are dealt with. These levels are: (i) the clause (e.g., The attitude that, yes, I can do it); (ii) the phrase (e.g., The attitude of yes, I can do it.); and (iii) the lexical item (e.g., The ‘yes, I can do it’ attitude).

Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0936-5907
Volume: 17, 07/2006
Pages: 245 - 267

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