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The relationship between irrealis mood and deontic modality in Paresi (Arawak)
Liames, 2018 This article presents a description and analysis of the deontic modality and its relationship with mood category (realis vs irrealis) in Paresi, a language of the Arawak family, spoken in Brazil.
Núbia Ferreira Rech +2 more
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Deontic modality and media discourse
, 2017 This work aims at analyzing the deontic modality in the media discourse, seeking to integrate the contextual, pragmatic, semantic and morphosyntatic aspects. With the theoretical support of the Discourse Functional Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008), we make an integrated analysis of the manifestation of variables related to the context, as well as ...
Prata, Nadja Paulino Pessoa +1 more
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Estudios de Traducción, 2020 It is argued that legal language should be formal, precise and clear to avoid ambiguity and/or misunderstanding. As rights and duties are communicated through modals, clarity and precision in drafting and translating them is crucial. Otherwise, there is
Hanem El-Farahaty, Abdelhamid Elewa
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Intersubjective strategies in deontic modality: evidential functions of Spanish deber ‘must’
Kalbotyra, 2017 The principal aim of this study is to examine the Spanish modal verb deber ‘must’ in its deontic readings, relating it to the notions of evidentiality and intersubjectivity.
Miriam Thegel
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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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The deontic modal ity in the opinion piece: illocutionary force regulated by the enunciative context
Cadernos de Letras da UFF, 2013 This article emerges from the need to propose a description of deontic elements considering their performance in the opinion text, particularly in the opinion piece genre.
Alcione Tereza Corbari
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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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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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