Robert Butler
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert Butler is involved.
Article
2025 ‘Can I just finish?’: The interplay between modality and force dynamics in strategies for holding the floor in political discourse Possibility and Necessity: Concepts and expressions of modality, Albrespit, Jean, Christelle Lacassain and Tracey Simpson (eds.), pp. 336–366 | Chapter
The art of making political arguments can be studied in conjunction with the concept of power, where force is exerted upon a social actor or a given situation. A force-dynamic analysis of closed-class forms, including modal auxiliary verbs, adverbs of negation and subordinate conjunctions, makes… read more