TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<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.
Attributes: |
`type` | categorizes the factuality of the text.
| Datatype: (fiction|fact|mixed|inapplicable)
| 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
| Default: #IMPLIED

Example

      <factuality type=fiction>

Example

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

Note

For many literary texts, a simple binary opposition between ``fiction'' and ``fact'' is na[iuml ]ve 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''.

Tagset auxiliary tag set for corpora and collections
Class
Filename `teicorp2`
Content: Usually empty, unless some further clarification of the type attribute is needed, in which case it may contain running prose
Parents textDesc
Children #PCDATA abbr add address app att c caesura cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del distinct emph expan foreign formula fw geogName gi gloss handShift hi lang link m measure mentioned name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar persName phr placeName ptr ref reg restore rs s seg sic soCalled space supplied tag term time timeRange timeStruct title unclear val w xptr xref
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT factuality    - O  (%phrase.seq)                      >
    <!ATTLIST factuality         %a.global
              type               (fiction | fact | mixed |
                                 inapplicable)       #IMPLIED       >

See 23.2.1

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