<factuality>
<factuality> describes the extent to which the text may be regarded as imaginative or non-imaginative, that is, as describing a fictional or a non-fictional world. 15.2.1 The Text Description | |||||||
Module | corpus — 15 Language Corpora | ||||||
In addition to global attributes | In addition to global attributes
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May contain |
core: abbr address cb choice date distinct email emph expan foreign gap gloss index lb measure measureGrp mentioned milestone name note num pb ptr ref rs soCalled term time title
dictionaries: lang
figures: figure
header: idno
msdescription: catchwords depth dim dimensions height heraldry locus locusGrp material origDate origPlace secFol signatures stamp watermark width
namesdates: addName affiliation bloc country district forename genName geo geogFeat geogName nameLink offset orgName persName placeName region roleName settlement state surname
textcrit: witDetail
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Declaration |
element factuality { att.global.attributes, attribute type { "fiction" | "fact" | "mixed" | "inapplicable" }?, macro.phraseSeq.limited } |
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Example |
<factuality type="fiction"/>
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Example |
<factuality type="mixed">contains a mixture of gossip and
speculation about real people and events</factuality> |
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Note |
Usually empty, unless some further clarification of the type
attribute is needed, in which case it may contain running prose
For many literary texts, a simple binary opposition between
‘fiction’
and ‘fact’ is naïve in the extreme; this parameter is not intended
for purposes of subtle literary analysis, but as a simple means of
characterising the claimed fictiveness of a given text. No claim is made
that works characterised as ‘fact’ are in any sense ‘true’.
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