Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions

Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9789027260529
ISBN-13 : 9027260524
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Book Synopsis Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions by : Pascal Hohaus

Download or read book Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions written by Pascal Hohaus and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.


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