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I am reading through the transcript of Madoka Magica episode 5 and I got to the line "何だか私、夢遊病っていうのか。" What does the "っていうのか" do to "夢遊病"?

A translation given is "Apparently, I went sleepwalking or some such thing..." which is not clearing things up for me much. I am assuming that "っていうのか" is the "or some such thing" part? Is that what it means exactly or are there other things it can imply?

Eddie Kal
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    Dup https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/85962/ – Jimmy Yang Oct 06 '21 at 22:52
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    Or perhaps does this answer your question? About っていうか&っていうの&っていうんだ – A.Ellett Oct 06 '21 at 22:53
  • @A.Ellett That question is about っていうのか as a rhetorical question. – naruto Oct 07 '21 at 00:50
  • @naruto I hadn't thought of it as rhetorical anything. But isn't that what's going on here to? It's not a real question, just a question to oneself. Right? If not, what am I missing? – A.Ellett Oct 07 '21 at 00:53
  • @A.Ellett No, this use corresponds to the first example in Jimmy's link (和食は好きっていうか). She does think she is like 夢遊病. – naruto Oct 07 '21 at 00:55
  • @naruto I guess I don't understand the difference between the two. :-( – A.Ellett Oct 07 '21 at 00:56
  • See the first example here. This っていうのか is a softener ("something like", "maybe", "kinda like", "or some such thing", "dunno how to put this but..."). @A.Ellett Something like 何がどう夢遊病だっていうのか would have been a rhetorical question (i.e., she is saying she is not sleepwalking). But in this sentence, she is saying she is somehow like sleepwalking. – naruto Oct 07 '21 at 02:50

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