Chapter 8. Modal verb categories in CHET

Almeida, Francisco Alonso; Álvarez-Gil, Francisco J.

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“…In academic discourse, the use of modal verbs is a crucial aspect of conveying meaning and expressing authority. However, while research on the epistemic modality in English is plentiful (Alonso-Almeida, 2015; Alonso- Almeida & Álvarez-Gil, 2019;Alonso-Almeida & Carrió-Pastor, 2017;Caffi, 1999Caffi, , 2007Czerwionka, 2012), the area of deontic modality in academic discourse remains underrepresented in the literature.…”

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“…One of the key elements in this type of discourse is the use of modality (Alonso- Almeida, 2015), which plays a crucial role in conveying the writer's stance and attitude towards the information presented (Alonso- . Within the realm of modality in scientific texts, deontic modals have received significant attention due to their ability to express obligations, permissions, recommendations and prohibitions, as evidenced in works such as Portner (2009), Charlow and Chrisman (2016), Carr (2017), Alonso- Almeida and Álvarez-Gil (2019) and Álvarez-Gil (2021).…”

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Las formas modales 'must' y 'should' en el discurso académico inglés de los posgraduados españoles

Álvarez-Gil

2023

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This paper presents a corpus linguistic study investigating the use and functions of the modal verbs, must and should, in academic discourse. The study analyses a corpus of doctoral dissertations within two distinct fields of knowledge, written in English and submitted to Spanish universities between 2011 and 2021. By employing corpus linguistics, we could interrogate this compilation to obtain concordances that could be analysed from a horizontal perspective, ensuring that each sample was appraised appropriately within its context of occurrence. The frequency and distribution of these modals in various contexts were examined. The findings revealed that must and should are utilised with differing frequencies and in diverse ways, depending on the academic discipline and the rhetorical purpose of the discourse. The paper contends that the use of modality, particularly deontic modality, is a vital aspect of academic writing, as it signals the writer's stance and the level of necessity, recommendation or obligation in their argumentation.

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Las formas modales 'must' y 'should' en el discurso académico inglés de los posgraduados españoles

Álvarez-Gil

2023

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“…This distinction is useful assuming that we want to prove the intentionality of the author and make a distinction between fact and opinion (i.e., Alonso Almeida & Álvarez Gil, 2019, among many others).…”

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Weinstein's Scandal: Contrastive Study on Intensification in American and Spanish Opinion Columns

Hernández-Guerra

2022

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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The aim of this paper is to make a qualitative analysis of the intensifiers used in the Spanish and American opinion columns. The topic chosen has been Weinstein's scandal and the publications during next weeks by different sources. The method followed will be Albelda Marco (2014) in which she divides intensifiers into lexical, semantical and expressions. Euphemisms will also be considered due to the relationship it has in the corpus with intensification. Conclusions try to explain the uneven number of examples in both nations and the reasons.

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“…que se trate (para una descripción de la herramienta véaseMoskowich, Crespo, Lareo & Camiña Rioboo, (2012) y Barsaglini-Castro y Valcarce (2020)). Su uso ha dado lugar a numerosos trabajos sobre género textual, evaluación del léxico, análisis de la perspectiva, efectos pragmáticos de uso de la lengua, entre otros(Moskowich, 2016(Moskowich, , 2017a(Moskowich, , 2017bCrespo, 2017;Álvarez-Gil, 2018;Moskowich & Crespo, 2018Alonso-Almeida & Álvarez-Gil, 2019).En CHET, se ha buscado de manera computarizada concordancias que contengan los siguientes verbos modales centrales: can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would y must. Una vez obtenidos los ejemplos, se ha procedido a un análisis manual de evaluación del contexto para determinar el significado exacto de cada modal, para poder así aislar aquellos que pueden ser categorizados como modales dinámicos.…”

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