factuality

<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

Attributes

In addition to global attributes

type

categorizes the factuality of the text.

Status

Optional

Legal values are:

fiction	the text is to be regarded as entirely imaginative
fact	the text is to be regarded as entirely informative or factual
mixed	the text contains a mixture of fact and fiction
inapplicable	the fiction/fact distinction is not regarded as helpful or appropriate to this text

Declaration

<rng:element name="factuality">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="type">
   <rng:choice>
    <rng:value>fiction</rng:value>
    <rng:value>fact</rng:value>
    <rng:value>mixed</rng:value>
    <rng:value>inapplicable</rng:value>
   </rng:choice>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:ref name="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
</rng:element>

element factuality
{
   att.global.attributes,
   attribute type { "fiction" | "fact" | "mixed" | "inapplicable" }?,
   macro.phraseSeq.limited
}

Example

Example

<factuality type="mixed">contains a mixture of gossip and
speculation about real people and events</factuality>

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’.

Contained by

model.textDescPart

May contain

analysis: interp interpGrp span spanGrp

certainty: certainty respons

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

iso-fs: fLib fs fvLib

linking: alt altGrp anchor join joinGrp link linkGrp timeline

msdescription: catchwords depth dimensions height heraldry locus 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

spoken: incident kinesic pause shift vocal writing

tagdocs: att code gi ident tag val

textcrit: witDetail

transcr: addSpan am damageSpan delSpan ex fw handShift space subst

P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

<factuality>