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Author | : Leo Hoye |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317893603 |
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This new study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail the nature of their association with different categories of modal adverb. Modality is notoriously complex but the present work offers an accessible introduction to the topic, a comprehensive account of modal-adverb co-occurrence, and a reappraisal of the English modal system. The descriptive framework draws fresh insights from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to the study of language and communication, and from recent work in corpus linguistics. The book includes contrastive reference to the expression of modality in Spanish and a discussion of modality in such applied contexts as language teaching. A major feature is its reliance on authentic spoken and written language data. The study is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics, English language, communications studies and related disciplines.
Author | : Raphael Salkie |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3110196344 |
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Main description: This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. It also approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from new perspectives, notably that of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.
Author | : Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110198924 |
Download The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field of modal certainty as expressed by adverbs in English. On the basis of corpus data the most frequent adverbs of certainty, including certainly, indeed, and no doubt, are examined from the point of view of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The corpus used is the International Corpus of English - Great Britain, supplemented by data from other present-day English corpora, and questionnaires testing native speakers' intuitions on fine-grained similarities and differences between closely related adverbs. The methodology also includes the study of cross-linguistic equivalents as indicators of semantic-pragmatic relations between adverbs. Translation corpora yield correspondences in Swedish, Dutch, French and German. A detailed study of those correspondences adds useful information for setting up a semantic-pragmatic profile of each adverb, showing where their meanings overlap and where the boundaries are. The concept of semantic maps is relied on for plotting these relations. The book not only provides a thorough empirical study of English adverbs expressing certainty, it also contributes to a better theoretical understanding of the complexity of modal certainty, how it is related to speakers' goals and to other semantic areas. It is the first in-depth study of this kind, combining rich information on English as well as opening up perspectives for further empirical and theoretical research into modality.
Author | : Leo Hoye |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 131789359X |
Download Adverbs and Modality in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail the nature of their association with different categories of modal adverb. Modality is notoriously complex but the present work offers an accessible introduction to the topic, a comprehensive account of modal-adverb co-occurrence, and a reappraisal of the English modal system. The descriptive framework draws fresh insights from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to the study of language and communication, and from recent work in corpus linguistics. The book includes contrastive reference to the expression of modality in Spanish and a discussion of modality in such applied contexts as language teaching. A major feature is its reliance on authentic spoken and written language data. The study is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics, English language, communications studies and related disciplines.
Author | : Roberta Facchinetti |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110895331 |
Download Modality in Contemporary English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. The articles fall into four sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs; (b) the status of emerging modal items; (c) stylistic variation and change; (d) sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models. The book is of considerable value to students and teachers of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide.
Author | : Michael R. Perkins |
Publisher | : Pinter Publishers for Royal Instit RS London |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Download Modal Expressions in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Diana Wellige |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2005-06-29 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3638391671 |
Download The modal verb MUST Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1, University of Lüneburg, course: Grammar in context - Modal verbs, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the task of modality, especially the modal verb must. The roots of modality can be found in the classical Greek philosophy. Modality “derived from the fact that human beings often categorize their attitudes and experience in terms of the way things might or must be, or might have been or must have been.” (Hoye, Leo (1997): Adverbs and modality in English. Harlow: Longman) So modal verbs are fundamental in everyday life, they are used in every conversation. With modals one can construct a possible world that differs from the actual world a lot.
Author | : F.R. Palmer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317900928 |
Download Modality and the English Modals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.
Author | : Agata Rozumko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788374315593 |
Download Modal Adverbs in English and Polish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Juana I. Marín-Arrese |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2013-12-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110286327 |
Download English Modality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.