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Expressing vs. Reporting

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

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Reporting an attitude states a fact about the speaker and can be false; expressing an attitude states nothing and cannot be false.

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"I am furious about the layoffs" reports, and could be a lie. Slamming the laptop expresses, and cannot be one.

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