English Modality
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English Modality

Core, Periphery and Evidentiality

  1. 458 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

English Modality

Core, Periphery and Evidentiality

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access English Modality by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Marta Carretero, Jorge Arús Hita, Johan van der Auwera, Juana I. Marín-Arrese,Marta Carretero,Jorge Arús Hita,Johan van der Auwera in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. List of contributors
  3. Part I: Core modality
  4. Modals: Striving for control
  5. Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English: mapping the impact of “genre”
  6. Where have all the modals gone? An essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English
  7. Part II: Peripheral modality
  8. Had better, ’d better and better: Diachronic and transatlantic variation
  9. Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals: a comparative study
  10. Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician
  11. Modal uses of the English present progressive
  12. On the generic argument for the modality of will
  13. Part III: Evidentiality and Modality
  14. REALITY and related concepts: towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs
  15. A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem
  16. Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality
  17. Part IV: Evidentiality and Modality in Discourse
  18. Modal verbs in news-related blogs: When the blogger counts
  19. Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance: Intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews
  20. Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq Inquiry: Blair vs. Brown
  21. Subject index