English Modality in Perspective: Genre Analysis and Contrastive Studies: 1 (English Corpus Linguistics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820464988 ISBN 13: 9780820464985

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Roberta Facchinetti is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Verona, Italy. Her research field and publications are mainly concerned with language description, textual analysis and pragmatics. This is done mostly by means of computerized corpora of both synchronic and diachronic English.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820464988
• ISBN 13: 9780820464985
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 273
• Editor: Facchinetti Roberta, Palmer Frank, Kohnen Thomas, Mukherjee Joybrato