Adverbs And Modality In English
DOWNLOAD
Download Adverbs And Modality In English PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Adverbs And Modality In English book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Adverbs And Modality In English
DOWNLOAD
Author : Leo Hoye
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Adverbs And Modality In English written by Leo Hoye and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This new study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail the nature of their association with different categories of modal adverb. Modality is notoriously complex but the present work offers an accessible introduction to the topic, a comprehensive account of modal-adverb co-occurrence, and a reappraisal of the English modal system. The descriptive framework draws fresh insights from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to the study of language and communication, and from recent work in corpus linguistics. The book includes contrastive reference to the expression of modality in Spanish and a discussion of modality in such applied contexts as language teaching. A major feature is its reliance on authentic spoken and written language data. The study is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics, English language, communications studies and related disciplines.
The Semantic Field Of Modal Certainty
DOWNLOAD
Author : Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2008-09-25
The Semantic Field Of Modal Certainty written by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field of modal certainty as expressed by adverbs in English. On the basis of corpus data the most frequent adverbs of certainty, including certainly, indeed, and no doubt, are examined from the point of view of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The corpus used is the International Corpus of English - Great Britain, supplemented by data from other present-day English corpora, and questionnaires testing native speakers' intuitions on fine-grained similarities and differences between closely related adverbs. The methodology also includes the study of cross-linguistic equivalents as indicators of semantic-pragmatic relations between adverbs. Translation corpora yield correspondences in Swedish, Dutch, French and German. A detailed study of those correspondences adds useful information for setting up a semantic-pragmatic profile of each adverb, showing where their meanings overlap and where the boundaries are. The concept of semantic maps is relied on for plotting these relations. The book not only provides a thorough empirical study of English adverbs expressing certainty, it also contributes to a better theoretical understanding of the complexity of modal certainty, how it is related to speakers' goals and to other semantic areas. It is the first in-depth study of this kind, combining rich information on English as well as opening up perspectives for further empirical and theoretical research into modality.
Modality In English
DOWNLOAD
Author : Raphael Salkie
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009
Modality In English written by Raphael Salkie and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Main description: This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal constructions in specific uses. It also approaches some of the classic issues in the field of modality from new perspectives, notably that of the 'Theory of Enunciative Operations' developed by the French linguist Antoine Culioli and his colleagues.
Modality In Contemporary English
DOWNLOAD
Author : Roberta Facchinetti
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-02-13
Modality In Contemporary English written by Roberta Facchinetti and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English. At the same time, it provides fresh impetus to more general linguistic issues such as grammaticalization, colloquialization, or the interplay between sociolinguistic and syntactic constraints. The articles fall into four sections: (a) the semantics and pragmatics of core modal verbs; (b) the status of emerging modal items; (c) stylistic variation and change; (d) sociolinguistic variation and syntactic models. The book is of considerable value to students and teachers of English and Linguistics at undergraduate and graduate level worldwide.
The Modal Verb Must
DOWNLOAD
Author : Diana Wellige
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2005-06-29
The Modal Verb Must written by Diana Wellige and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-29 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1, University of Lüneburg, course: Grammar in context - Modal verbs, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the task of modality, especially the modal verb must. The roots of modality can be found in the classical Greek philosophy. Modality “derived from the fact that human beings often categorize their attitudes and experience in terms of the way things might or must be, or might have been or must have been.” (Hoye, Leo (1997): Adverbs and modality in English. Harlow: Longman) So modal verbs are fundamental in everyday life, they are used in every conversation. With modals one can construct a possible world that differs from the actual world a lot.
Modal Expressions In English
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael R. Perkins
language : en
Publisher: Pinter Publishers for Royal Instit RS London
Release Date : 1983
Modal Expressions In English written by Michael R. Perkins and has been published by Pinter Publishers for Royal Instit RS London this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with English language categories.
Adverbs And Modality In English
DOWNLOAD
Author : Leo Hoye
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Adverbs And Modality In English written by Leo Hoye and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This new study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail the nature of their association with different categories of modal adverb. Modality is notoriously complex but the present work offers an accessible introduction to the topic, a comprehensive account of modal-adverb co-occurrence, and a reappraisal of the English modal system. The descriptive framework draws fresh insights from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to the study of language and communication, and from recent work in corpus linguistics. The book includes contrastive reference to the expression of modality in Spanish and a discussion of modality in such applied contexts as language teaching. A major feature is its reliance on authentic spoken and written language data. The study is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics, English language, communications studies and related disciplines.
Modality And The English Modals
DOWNLOAD
Author : F.R. Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-02-04
Modality And The English Modals written by F.R. Palmer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.
Modality And The English Modals
DOWNLOAD
Author : Frank Robert Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1979
Modality And The English Modals written by Frank Robert Palmer and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with English language categories.
Thinking Modally
DOWNLOAD
Author : Elena Domínguez
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-28
Thinking Modally written by Elena Domínguez and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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 temporality, and the second those that explore modality and its connection with stance and evaluation in specific genres and discourse domains.