English modality: core, periphery and evidentiality
by Arús Hita, Jorge Auwera, Johan van der Carretero, Marta Marín-Arrese, Juana I.
The book presents new issues and areas of work in Modality and Evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other languages. The volume addresses issues such as 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 (TAM systems), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelli…
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- Full title :English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality / edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Marta Carretero, Jorge Arús Hita, Johan van der Auwera.
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The book presents new issues and areas of work in Modality and Evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other languages. The volume addresses issues such as 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 (TAM systems), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.
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- Publication Date:©2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):De Gruyter Mouton
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 449 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783110286328, 3110286327
- oclc:ocn870892271
- LC Classification:PE1315.M6
- Dewey Decimal:425
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Part I: Core modality; Modals: Striving for control; Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English: mapping the impact of "genre"; Where have all the modals gone? An essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English; Part II: Peripheral modality; Had better, 'd better and better: Diachronic and transatlantic variation; Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals: a comparative study; Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician; Modal uses of the English present progressive.
On the generic argument for the modality of willPart III: Evidentiality and Modality; REALITY and related concepts: towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs; A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem; Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality; Part IV: Evidentiality and Modality in Discourse; Modal verbs in news-related blogs: When the blogger counts; Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance: Intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews.
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