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Exploring Modality in Analytical Exposition Texts: A Study of Senior High School Students' Writing

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature
This study examines the application of modality in analytical exposition texts written by senior high school students, focusing on how different modalities convey ideas, judgments, and attitudes.
Siti Khairani Ritonga, T. Silvana Sinar, T. Thyrhaya Zein   +2 more
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DEONTIC MODALITY IN SPEECH ACTS IN SPORTS DISCOURSE

Filolog, 2021
Palmer (1979) starts from the linguistic reality that deontic modals do not have past forms, because it is impossible to impose an obligation or give permission to someone in the past, although it is possible to report an obligation or permission that ...
Мina Z. Dragaš
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Who is Right, Who is Wrong? Interpreting 14 Points of Wilson – A Case Study of Deontic Modals and their Meanings

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021
The document titled “14 points of Wilson” was announced by the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson in his speech addressed to the United States Congress on 8th January 1918.
Matulewska Aleksandra, Mikołajczyk Marek   +1 more
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The Motive of Duty and Kantian Moral Worth

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 349-361, October 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, it is argued that action from duty has special moral worth on Kant's account because (i) it is an instance of good willing, and (ii) the good will is the only unconditional good. This is used to argue, contrary to various commentators, that Kant's doctrine of moral worth is central, not only to Kantian ethics, but to any ...
Samuel Kahn
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Literacy: Embracing Illiteracies as Strategic Resistance in Citizenship Education

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reconsiders the role of citizenship illiteracies in citizenship education, particularly in challenging contexts where direct confrontation is untenable. Traditionally, citizenship education often equates citizenship literacies with positive civic engagement, overlooking the potential value of illiteracies as forms of resistance ...
Jason Cong Lin
wiley   +1 more source

No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 606-618, September 2026.
ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
wiley   +1 more source

Romantic Domination

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 394-404, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Romantic relationships between professors and students, between employers and employees, and between other partners at different points on an institutional hierarchy are widely regarded as morally troubling. Popular explanations as to why have appealed variously to violations of institutional duties, to the impossibility of sexual consent ...
Lucy McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

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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A Genre Approach to the Translation of Political Speeches Based on a Chinese-Italian-English Trilingual Parallel Corpus

SAGE Open, 2020
Using a trilingual parallel corpus, this article investigates the translation of Chinese political speeches in Italian and English, with the aim to explore cross-linguistic variations regarding translation shifts of key functional elements in the genre ...
Yu Danni
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 574-594, September 2026.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
wiley   +1 more source