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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...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Topics in english linguistics [tiel];
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110286328 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110286328.jpg |
| Summary: |
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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1 online resource(ix,449pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110286328（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | PE1315 |
| CLC: | H314 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- 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 / 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 will / 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 / 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 / Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq Inquiry: Blair vs. Brown / Subject index. |