Experience Construction and Function Realization of Counterfactual Utterances
Counterfactuality concerns situations that oppose reality or subjective perception,and coun-terfactual thinking involves reverse cognitive processes grounded in factual contexts.Traditional linguistic research on counterfactuality predominantly focuses on the lexico-grammatical dimen-sions,while this study proposes the concept of acounterfactual utterance,offering a novel avenue for linguistic research on counterfactuality.A counterfactual utterance represents an alternative expression of the real-world experience,underpinned by embodied motivations.The counterfac-tual space is constructed with the lexical-grammatical resources within language.With these re-sources,counterfactual utterances are generated through the interaction between situational con-texts and encyclopedic knowledge.The semantic interpretation of counterfactual utterances is an-chored against their counterparts in the real space,thereby contradicting factual or subjective comprehensions.Consequently,counterfactual utterances fulfill their ideational and interpersonal metafunctions by constructing counterfactual experiences.
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