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Deontic modality in tourism scientific writing

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
Este artículo se centra en los verbos modales deónticos que aparecen en un corpus de artículos de investigación sobre turismo. La originalidad de este estudio radica principalmente en la selección de dos secciones fundamentales del artículo de ...
Elena Domínguez Morales, Isabel Soto Déniz   +1 more
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Scaling deontic modality in parliamentary discourse [PDF]

Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2016
In the paper we apply the scalarity principle to deontic modality and classify it into strong, medium and weak, with the ends of the spectrum suggesting the highest and the lowest degrees of imposition and necessity. We study the two extremes, the strong
Milica Vuković Stamatović
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Epistemic and Deontic Modality in Romanian and Serbian Scientific Discourse [PDF]

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2021
Modal verbs expressing epistemic and deontic modality can be used as discourse markers to implicate the authors’ attitude to the propositional content (doubt, certainty, hedging).
Novakov Predrag, Lazović Mihaela
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The role of deontic modality in the construction and mitigation of evaluation in hard news reporting [PDF]

Journal of World Languages, 2023
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of deontic modality as a strategic means of mitigating evaluative meanings within and across texts.
Rantsudu Boitshwarelo, Bartlett Tom
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A Contrastive Study of Deontic Modality in Parallel Texts

ELOPE, 2021
This article is a contrastive study of deontic modal markers in three parallel texts. It analyses the modality system in the English, Russian and French texts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights accounting for the ambiguity of some English ...
Olga Boginskaya
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A Corpus-Based Study of Deontic Modality in Legal Discourse

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2022
This article contributes to the study of English deontic modal means as a key linguistic phenomenon. It responds to the need of a systematic analysis of English deontic modal auxiliaries used in international legal documents of various genres.
Olga Boginskaya
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Modals with a taste of the deontic [PDF]

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013
The aim of this paper is to present an explanation for the impact of normative considerations on people's assessment of certain seemingly purely descriptive matters concerning freedom, causation, and intentionality. The explanation is based on two main claims.
Joshua Knobe, Zoltán Gendler Szabó
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The Difference Between Modal Verbs in Deontic and Epistemic Modality

Humaniora, 2012
Modality is always interesting to discuss. Understanding it is crucial for both language teachers and learners. This essay discusses the concept of modality, its types and uses.
Menik Winiharti
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A Review of Deontic Modality in Indonesian Language Based on the theory of Japanese Modality

Humaniora, 2012
According to Hasan Alwi (1992) the scopes of deontic modality in Indonesian are permission and command with its modals such as .boleh, bisa, dapat., and other modality verbs.
Tatang Hariri
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Scare quotes as deontic modals

Linguistics, 2023
The aim of this article is to propose a formal semantic account of scare quotation (SQ). I present data showing that SQ, though flexible, is subject to regular and so far largely unnoticed limitations following from the infelicitous use of irony as well ...
Wiślicki Jan
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