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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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The role of deontic modality in the construction and mitigation of evaluation in hard news reporting

Journal of World Languages
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.
Tom Bartlett
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Deontic Modality in Lithuanian Translations of EU Legislation

Vertimo Studijos, 2022
The present article is a corpus-driven investigation into deontic modality in the Lithuanian translations of EU legislation. It builds on the data of the EUR-Lex2/2016 parallel corpus. The article discusses the pivotal points of deontic modality and its
Žygimantas Pekūnas
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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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Modality in Saami-speaking kindergarten and school children

Sámi dieđalaš áigečála, 2021
This article examines modal expressions in Saami-speaking kindergarten and school children aged 4-8 years. The aim is to explore the ways in which children use language to express different types of modality, and to investigate whether there are ...
Johanna Johansen
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Subjectivity as a Scalar and Context-Dependent Semantic Category in Persian Modality [PDF]

زبان پژوهی, 2021
Subjectivity (the presence of a thinking agent in utterances) as an ever-eluding dimension is an essential and inseparable part of language and communication.
Gholamreza Medadian
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‘Good’ Is ‘Possible’: A Case Study of the Modal Uses of ‘Good’ in Shaoxing

Languages, 2023
This paper sets out to investigate the modal uses of the lexeme hɒ3 ‘good’ in the Jidong Shaoxing variety of Wu and to reconstruct its grammaticalization pathway. Modal meanings of hɒ3 include circumstantial possibility, deontic possibility and necessity,
Shanshan Lü, Xiao Huang
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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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A corpus-based study on deontic modality in Competition Law: Insights from the English-Greek language pair

Estudios de Traducción, 2020
This study investigates deontic modality, the grammatical category through which legal texts express mainly obligation and permission, in an English-Greek bilingual corpus composed of legislative texts related to European Union (EU) Competition Law ...
Stavros Kozobolis
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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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