English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality / edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marín-Arrese, Juana.

Series:

Topics in English linguistics ; 81.

Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; volume 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Modality.

English language.

Modality (Linguistics).

Evidentials (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (459 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.

Contents:

Modals : striving for control / Ronald Langacker

Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English : mapping the impact of "genre" / Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts

Where have all the modals gone? : an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech

Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noël and An van Linden

Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins

Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucía Loureiro-Porto

Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit

On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler

Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen

A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usoniené and Jolanta Šinkūnienė

Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla

Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti

Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Begoñia Núñez Perucha

Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. Brown / Juana I. Marín-Arrese.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110286328

3110286327

OCLC:

859569595