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MODALITAS KALIMAT PADA ANTOLOGI CERITA PENDEK LUKISAN KALIGRAFI KARYA A. MUSTOFA BISRI [PDF]
Retorika, 2018 Modality Sentence in Short Story Anthology Lukisan Kaligrafi By A. Mustofa Bisri. The aim of this research is to describe about modality sentence as a way to uncover A. Mustofa Bisri's style in short story anthology Lukisan Kaligrafi.
Imeylda Afyolanda +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on the adaptive transfer and the genre knowledge model as a conceptual framework, this research explores how English as a second language (ESL) learners transferred knowledge across genres (narration and argumentation) and media (print‐based writing and video) with the assistance of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms ...
Meilu Liu +2 more
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Translating Deontic Modality: Semantic and Formal Convergences and Discrepancies
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsModality is a challenging phenomenon for translators since languages have modality systems that differ in terms of the degree of grammaticalization. The article aims to analyze and summarize strategies used in translating deontic modal operators from ...
Olga A. Boginskaya
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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals
Mind &Language, EarlyView.This paper discusses counter‐examples to modus ponens and modus tollens involving modals and quantificational adverbs, and presents new counter‐examples with generic conditionals. We argue that the counter‐examples are spurious, and are explained by the domain‐restricting effects of if‐clauses.
Daniel Lassiter +3 more
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2009 This paper deals with the methods of expressing deontic modality in statutory instruments. The author analyzes three pure meanings that is to say; (i) obligation, (ii) prohibition and (iii) permission.
Aleksandra MATULEWSKA
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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
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Scare quotes as deontic modals
Linguistics, 2023 AbstractThe 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 as the division between at-issue and not-at-issue content parts.
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Grammaticalization, polysemy and iterated modality: the case of should.
Corela, 2007 This article addresses the question of iterated modality from the twofold perspective of grammaticalization and polysemy through the semantic description of various uses of should in contemporary English, and more particularly that of “meditative-polemic
Viviane Arigne
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Advocacy and the function of folk psychology
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Why do we care about getting mental state attributions right? A common answer is that folk psychology is a proto‐scientific theory that allows us to predict and explain the behavior of physical systems. I argue that this position is inconsistent with one of the central practices in which attribution of desire occurs: to advocate for our interests and ...
Henry Schiller
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Quantifiers for a Modal Future
Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Future auxiliaries present a challenge to the classical analysis of modal expressions as existential or universal quantifiers over a contextually provided set of possible worlds: these expressions come with a distinct modal flavor, but their interaction with negation and the fact that future judgments come in degrees of confidence is ...
Malte Willer
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