<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.

Module corpusCCAHTD

Attributes

@typecategorizes the factuality of the text.

Status

Optional

Datatype

teidata.enumerated

Legal values

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

<div type="verse">
  <head>Night in Tarras</head>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>At evening tramping on the hot white road</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>A wind sprang up from nowhere as the sky</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
</div>

Classes and content

Member of

model.textDescPart

May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

lang

figures

header

idno

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

transcr

Character data

character data

Contained by

corpus

textDesc

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 characterizing the claimed fictiveness of a given text. No claim is made that works characterized as fact are in any sense true.

Examples

<factuality type="fiction"/>

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

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
  </content>