Norwegian Modal Verbs and Attitudinal Modality

Mikučionis, Ugnius

doi:10.15388/scandinavisticavilnensis.2009.2.7

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“…for example, makes a broad division of modalities into two categories: those that contain an element of will and those that contain no element of will. According to Mikučionis (2012), a corresponding distinction has become conventional in modern linguistic literature on modality, although there is no consensus on the terminology. Most authors call the two modal domains non-epistemic and epistemic modality, while others prefer terms like deontic vs. epistemic, root vs. epistemic, root vs. non-root, or volitive vs. non-volitive modality.…”

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Modality as a Persuasive tool in English and Arabic Self-Improvement Books

Ahmad Farrag

2022

المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الآداب-جامعة أسیوط

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This paper attempts to explore the patterns of modality in selected English and Arabic self-improvement books. Selfimprovement is a new genre of writing that provides readers with information and guidance on how to cope with life, resolve problems, take decisions, and achieve success. The analysis is based on Biber et al's (1999) categorization of modality. The study focuses on the use of modal verbs (i.e. can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might, and must). It shows that different forms of modality have played an important persuasive function in the books under investigation. Prediction modality has been used to emphasize the authors' experience and comment on the positive outcomes in readers' lives as a result of applying their advice. Possibility modality has been used to present those authors' messages as a possible list of options or suggestions, not as authoritative instructions. Readers' abilities to change their inner qualities are addressed directly by the authors through using ability modality.

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Modality as a Persuasive tool in English and Arabic Self-Improvement Books

Ahmad Farrag

2022

المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الآداب-جامعة أسیوط

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Norwegian Modal Verbs and Attitudinal Modality

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Modality as a Persuasive tool in English and Arabic Self-Improvement Books

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