Who is Right, Who is Wrong? Interpreting 14 Points of Wilson – A Case Study of Deontic Modals and their Meanings

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric Pub Date : 2021-11-19 DOI:10.2478/slgr-2021-0006

Aleksandra Matulewska, Marek Mikołajczyk

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Abstract The document titled “14 points of Wilson” was announced by the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson in his speech addressed to the United States Congress on 8th January 1918. The speech is one of the most well known documents of the First World War as it touched upon several world issues. The text has been interpreted ever since in respect to the importance and real meaning of points formulated by Wilson. One of the points referred to Poland. The aim of the paper is to focus on the exponents of deontic modality used in that text of historical value and to find the answer to the question concerning the deontic value of each point. The analysis will encompass the principles of deontic logic as well as the meaning of deontic modals in legal discourse at the time of speech delivery as those 14 points should be classified as a text belonging to legal genres. The aim of the paper is to present the historical background and the linguistic analysis in order to find out whether historical facts, interpretations and language used correspond with one another.

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谁对谁错?威尔逊14点的解读——以道义情态动词及其意义为例

摘要题为“威尔逊的14点”的文件是美国总统伍德罗·威尔逊在1918年1月8日向美国国会发表的演讲中宣布的。这篇演讲是第一次世界大战中最著名的文件之一，因为它涉及到几个世界问题。从那时起，文本就一直根据Wilson提出的要点的重要性和真正意义进行解释。其中一点提到了波兰。本文的目的是关注具有历史价值的文本中所使用的道德形态的指数，并找到关于每一点的道德价值问题的答案。该分析将包括义务逻辑的原则以及在演讲时法律话语中义务模态的含义，因为这14点应该被归类为属于法律体裁的文本。本文的目的是介绍历史背景和语言分析，以找出历史事实、解释和使用的语言是否相互对应。

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