This paper discusses textual uses of modality and mood forms in English and Japanese and claims that they all represent a shift from subjective through intersubjective to the textual. As the shift towards textual function is difficult to define in terms of either subjectification or intersubjectification, it is suggested that shift towards the textual needs to be acknowledged as equal to the shift towards the subjective and the intersubjective. These three kinds of shifts are understood as together forming the larger tendency of change labeled as ‘speech-act orientation’. Furthermore, the cases discussed in this paper provide evidence for the fact that textual functions, which have often been conceived as an intermediate stage in change towards subjective and intersubjective elements, are in fact sometimes the endpoints of grammatical change, beyond subjective and intersubjective functions.
2023. The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: Evidence from Veneto. Journal of Pragmatics 208 ► pp. 138 ff.
Xu, Jun & Yuxiao Liang
2023. Negotiating intersubjectivity by interpersonal and appraisal shifts in Chinese-English government press conference interpreting. Frontiers in Psychology 14
Tantucci, Vittorio & Aiqing Wang
2020. From co-actions to intersubjectivity throughout Chinese ontogeny: A usage-based analysis of knowledge ascription and expected agreement. Journal of Pragmatics 167 ► pp. 98 ff.
2016. Toward a typology of constative speech acts: Actions beyond evidentiality, epistemic modality, and factuality. Intercultural Pragmatics 13:2
TANTUCCI, VITTORIO
2017. From immediate to extended intersubjectification: a gradient approach to intersubjective awareness and semasiological change. Language and Cognition 9:1 ► pp. 88 ff.
Tantucci, Vittorio
2017. An evolutionary approach to semasiological change: Overt influence attempts through the development of the Mandarin 吧-ba particle. Journal of Pragmatics 120 ► pp. 35 ff.
Tantucci, Vittorio
2021. Language and Social Minds,
Breban, Tine
2015. Refining secondary grammaticalization by looking at subprocesses of change. Language Sciences 47 ► pp. 161 ff.
2015. The impact of input and output domains: towards a function-based categorization of types of grammaticalization. Language Sciences 47 ► pp. 172 ff.
Kinuhata, Tomohide
2012. Historical development from subjective to objective meaning: Evidence from the Japanese question particle ka. Journal of Pragmatics 44:6-7 ► pp. 798 ff.
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