Thinking modally : English and contrastive studies on modality

Thinking modally : English and contrastive studies on modality / edited by Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla, Carmen Maíz, Elena Domínguez, and Ma Victoria Martín de la Rosa.

This volume brings together a selection of the papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Modality in English, held in Madrid on 9-11 September 2010. The book is divided into two parts, with the first encompassing contributions focusing on the notions of modality, evidentiality and temp...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on Modality in English Madrid, Spain
Other Authors: Zamorano-Mansilla, Juan Rafael (Editor), Maiz, Carmen (Editor), Dominguez, Elena (Editor), De la Rosa, Victoria Martin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub, 2015.
Subjects:
English language > Modality > Congresses.
Modality (Linguistics) > Congresses.
Linguistics.
Semantics, discourse analysis, etc.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
English language > Modality
Modality (Linguistics)
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Studies on Modality, Evidentiality and Temporality; Explicitness of Epistemic Modal Marking; I want you to and I need you to in Modern and Present-Day English; Modals of Obligation in Dialogic Registers of British English; Why Epistemic may is Rare in Questions and Epistemic can in Statements; A Functional Approach to the Modal Adverbs no doubt, doubtless, and undoubtedly; On the Uses of would in Epistemic Contexts; Modality, Habituality, and Auxiliation; Temporal Interpretation of English and Greek Modals
  • The Narrative Present Perfect in EnglishRe-examining Evidentiality as a Pragmatic Notion; Part II: Modality, Stance and Evaluation in Genres and Discourse Domains; No wonder as a Marker of Epistemic Modality and Affective Evaluation; The Annotation of Appraisal; Epistemic and Attitudinal Adverbs and Adjectives in MICASE; The Concept of Modality through Cognitive Grammar and the Conceptualisation of Emotions; Stance and Subjectivity/Intersubjectivity Assessment in the Essays of Virginia Woolf; Modality in English and Spanish Advertising Slogans; Why are Magazine Advertisements So Creative?
  • Sentential Epistemic and Evidential Devices in Spanish and English Texts on ComputingThe Coding of Modality in Research Article Discussions; Modality Awareness Development in Narratives for Young Readers of English; Using Corpus Annotation for the Teaching of Modal Meanings in English and Spanish

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