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Proposition and Modality

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2014, 43(), pp.303-320
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Lee Seonyoung 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to redefine the concept of ‘modality’ and ‘attitude of the speaker’ in terms of the proposition. The modality is grammatical category which expresses “a sperker cannot assert that the sentence is a proposition.” Therefore negation, tense, aspect, speech acts and sentence type cannot be modality because a sentence with negation, tense or aspect still represent truth values, speech acts presupposes that content with proposition isn’t the world, and sentence type is necessary in Korean. The modality represents irrealis as subcategory of mood and can be divided into epistemic modality and deontic modality.

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