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Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions
Categories, co-text, and context
Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically.
Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.
Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 216] 2020. vi, 344 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 October 2020
Published online on 28 October 2020
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Modalising expressions and modality: An overview of trends and challengesRainer Schulze and Pascal Hohaus | pp. 1–16
- Section I. Moving to modal categories: Contesting categorical boundaries
- Chapter 2. Revisiting global and intra-categorial frequency shifts in the English modals: A usage-based, constructionist view on the heterogeneity of modal developmentRobert Daugs | pp. 19–46
- Chapter 3. The scope of modal categories: An empirical studyHeiko Narrog | pp. 47–78
- Chapter 4. Not just frequency, not just modality: Production and perception of English semi-modalsDavid Lorenz and David Tizón-Couto | pp. 79–108
- Chapter 5. How and why seem became an evidentialGünther Lampert | pp. 109–140
- Section II. Moving to modal co-text: Beyond phrase and clause units
- Chapter 6. Conditionals, modality, and Schrödinger’s cat: Conditionals as a family of linguistic qubitsCostas Gabrielatos | pp. 143–172
- Chapter 7. Modal marking in conditionals. Grammar, usage and discourseHeiko Narrog | pp. 173–194
- Chapter 8. Present-day English constructions with chance(s) in Talmy’s greater modal system and beyondAn Van linden and Lieselotte Brems | pp. 195–222
- Section III. Moving to modal context: Register, genre and text type
- Chapter 9. A genre-based analysis of evaluative modality in multi-verb sequences in EnglishNoriko Matsumoto | pp. 225–252
- Chapter 10. Epistemic modals in academic English: A contrastive study of engineering, medicine and linguistics research papersMaría Luisa Carrió-Pastor | pp. 253–280
- Chapter 11. On the (con)textual properties of must, have to and shall : An integrative accountGrégory Furmaniak | pp. 281–310
- Chapter 12. “The future elected government should fully represent the interests of Hongkong people”: Diachronic change in the use of modalising expressions in Hong Kong English between 1928 and 2018Carolin Biewer, Lisa Lehnen and Ninja Schulz | pp. 311–342
- Subject index | pp. 343–344
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