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English Modality in Perspective
Roberta Facchinetti
其他書名
Genre Analysis and Contrastive Studies
出版
P. Lang
, 2004
主題
Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language
Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
Language Arts & Disciplines / Public Speaking & Speech Writing
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
ISBN
0820464988
9780820464985
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k85nQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The analysis and theoretical description of modality may be grammar-centred, semantic- or pragmatic-oriented, and may refer to the content of the linguistic act, or to the contextual situation, or again to the interlocutors of the speech act itself. Such approaches are only some of the multiple perspectives - each one complementing the other - from which the kaleidoscopic modal system can be studied. The editors of this collection of papers bear all these perspectives in mind and focus their attention on specialized genres, on the one hand, and on the similarities to and differences from a few English modal expressions that are found in other languages, on the other. All the papers in this volume exhibit an interesting balance between theory and practice, in so much as they all make use of computerized linguistic corpora in order to test, confirm or disclaim previously illustrated theories or intuitions, or to provide ground for new hypotheses.