Re-assessing modalising expressions categories, co-text, and context
"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, necessit...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 216. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 pages) illustrations (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9027260524 9789027260529 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |