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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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Communicative Justice in Later Life: A Critical Discourse Study and Bioethics-of-Vulnerability Analysis of Older Adults' Primary Care in Spain. [PDF]

Nurs Inq
ABSTRACT Older adults' experiences of primary care are shaped not only by service capacity but by the language and routines through which access and care are organised. Using a qualitative Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) approach informed by the bioethics of vulnerability, we analysed interviews and focus groups with 12 community‐dwelling older adults
Martínez-Angulo P, Millán-Eslava MJ.
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Deontic Modality [PDF]

Analysis, 2018
Jussi Suikkanen
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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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Logical Semantics and Norms: A Kantian Perspective [PDF]

, 2017
It’s widely accepted that normativity is not subject to truth values. The underlying reasoning is that truth values can only be predicated of descriptive statements; normative statements are prescriptive, not descriptive; thus truth value predicates ...
Mascarenhas, Sérgio
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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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