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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.
Rantsudu Boitshwarelo, Bartlett Tom
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An approach to the translation of deontic modality in legal texts. The case of the Polish and English versions of the “Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union”

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2017
An approach to the translation of deontic modality in legal texts. The case of the Polish and English versions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union The co-existence of twenty-four legal languages in the European Union is ...
Maciej Paweł Jaskot, Agnieszka Wiltos
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Deontic Modality [PDF]

Analysis, 2018
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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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MODAL VALUES OF VERBAL FORMS IN THE EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR REGIONAL OR MINORITY LANGUAGES. A LINGUISTIC COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH, ITALIAN AND SPANISH VERSIONS

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2014
The present paper analyses the verbal expression of deontic, epistemic and performative values in the English, Italian and Spanish versions of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, a treaty of the Council of Europe which aims to ...
Mariangela COPPOLELLA
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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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Negation, Polarity, and Deontic Modals [PDF]

Linguistic Inquiry, 2013
Universal deontic modals may vary with respect to whether they scope over or under negation. For instance, English modals like must and should take wide scope with respect to negation; modals like have to and need to take narrow scope. Similar patterns have been attested in other languages.
Iatridou, Sabine, Zeijlstra, Hedde
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Impersonal Modal Verbs in Middle Persian Zoroastrian [PDF]

زبان پژوهی
Modality is of fundamental importance in studying the structure of all languages worldwide. Providing a comprehensive definition of this notion is difficult. In general, modality expresses the speaker's point of view towards the statement in the sentence.
Narjes Sabouri, Belghis Rovshan
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