The analysis and theoretical description of modality may be grammar-centred, semantic- or pragmatic-oriented, and may refer to the content of the linguistic act, or to the contextual situation, or again to the interlocutors of the speech act itself. Such approaches are only some of the multiple perspectives - each one complementing the other - from which the kaleidoscopic modal system can be studied. The editors of this collection of papers bear all these perspectives in mind and focus their attention on specialized genres, on the one hand, and on the similarities to and differences from a few English modal expressions that are found in other languages, on the other. All the papers in this volume exhibit an interesting balance between theory and practice, in so much as they all make use of computerized linguistic corpora in order to test, confirm or disclaim previously illustrated theories or intuitions, or to provide ground for new hypotheses.
Reihe
Sprache
Verlagsort
Frankfurt a.M.
Deutschland
Zielgruppe
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 21 cm
Breite: 14.8 cm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-631-51476-4 (9783631514764)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
The Editors: Roberta Facchinetti, born in 1967, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Verona. She graduated in Foreign Languages at the University of Bergamo in 1988, where she later taught English Linguistics. Her research field and publications are mainly concerned with language description, textual analysis and pragmatics, with specific reference to modality. She has also dealt with Early Modern English grammatical theory and lexicography and has lectured on specialized languages and on teaching and research applications of corpora in a number of Italian universities.
Frank Palmer is Professor Emeritus of the University of Reading. He was educated at New College and Merton College, Oxford (1940-49), with a break for war service, and was a Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1950-60), Professor and Head of Department of Linguistics at The University College of North Wales (1960-65) and Professor and Head of Department of Linguistic Science at the University of Reading (1965-87). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea and an Honorary Doctor of Letters. He has lectured on English Grammar and on Linguistics in every continent, in over thirty different countries.
Contents: Roberta Facchinetti/Frank Palmer: Introduction - Casey Mari Keck/Douglas Biber: Modal use in spoken and written university registers: A corpus-based study - Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: Interacting with the audience: Modal verbs in cross-cultural business lectures - Mirjana N. Dedaic: If I may say, I would like to ask and Let me repeat: Modality-construed mitigation markers in political communication - John Morley: Modals in persuasive journalism: An example from the Economist - Polly Walsh: Investigating prediction in financial and business news articles - Norma Susana Rezzano: Modality and modal responsibility in research articles in English - Juana I. Marín-Arrese/Laura Hidalgo Downing/Silvia Molina Plaza: Evidential, epistemic and deontic modality in English and Spanish: The expression of writer stance in newspaper discourse - JoAnne Neff/Francisco Ballesteros/Emma Dafouz/Francisco Martínez/Juan Pedro Rica/Mercedes Díez/Rosa Prieto: The expression of writer stance in native and non-native argumentative texts - Anna Wärnsby: Constraints on the interpretation of epistemic modality in English and Swedish - Ivana Trbojevic Milosevic: Epistemic modality and conditionals in English and Serbian: A contrastive approach - Marta Carretero: Explorations on the use of English will / be going to contrasted with Spanish future indicative / ir a - Anastasios Tsangalidis: Disambiguating modals in English and Greek.
