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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 LanguagesThe 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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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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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 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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A system for modal and deontic defeasible reasoning [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing, 2007 Defeasible reasoning is a well-established nonmonotonic reasoning approach that has recently been combined with semantic web technologies. This paper describes modal and deontic extensions of defeasible logic, motivated by potential applications for modelling multi-agent systems and policies.
Grigoris Antoniou +2 more
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