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Selezneva, T. A. "The Problem of Logico-Philosophical Origins of the Category of Modality." MGIMO Review of International Relations, no. 2(29) (April 28, 2013): 225–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2013-2-29-225-227.

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The article represents theoreticomethodological analysis of linguistic modality. It deals with the question of correspondence between the notions of modus and modality in philosophy and linguistics, as two related, but not identical categories. The author notices fundamental logico-philosophical conceptions of the modality and studies their impact on development of linguistic approaches to this category.

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Britsуn, V. M., and L. V. Anishchenko. "Charles Ballyʼs paper «Syntaxe de la modalité explicite» and modern linguistics." Movoznavstvo 318, no. 3 (July 2, 2021): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33190/0027-2833-318-2021-3-003.

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The article examines the place of Charles Ballyʼs paper «Syntaxe de la modalité explicite» in the body of work of the prominent Swiss linguist on the category of modality and identifies the role of his ideas in modern description of syntax. In Charles Ballyʼs linguistic heritage the concept of modality plays an exceptionally important role. His views o n the modal organization of the sentence are based on the theoretical perspective to describing the phenomenon of language proposed by his teacher Ferdinand de Saussure. Charles Ballyʼs theory of modality is an integral part of his general theory of enunciation. Identification of the two components in the semantic structure of the sentence, namely the modus and the dictum, becomes some kind of a bridge between Saussureʼs intellectualized grammar of language and the grammar of speech, which specifically entails the study of emotional and affective factors, and also stylistic aspects of human language. According to Charles Bally, the modus is a combination of a modal verb, which may contain a variety of shades of opinion, feeling or will, and a modal subject, which can represent a speaking subject and also other subjects. Charles Ballyʼs studies significantly influenced the interpretation of the category of modality in modern linguistics. However, not every theory based on the idea of identifying the modus and the dictum in the sentence can be theoretically convincing. Identifying the dictum with the representation of the objective, and the modus with the subjective led to unsubstantiated theoretical opposition of objective and subjective modality. Only misunderstanding of Charles Ballyʼs ideas might explain the attempts to attribute the ability to express the category of evaluation and emotionality to the modus. Charles Ballyʼs original theoretical views proved to be productive in the development of the cognitive theory of modality, which in its turn is based on other theoretical views on the phenomenon of language. Within this theory, modality is defined as a category that describes the mental-sensory differentiation of the speakerʼs thoughts in the process of sentence formation. According to the active approach to sentence interpretation, the subject of the modus in cognitive modality theory is only the speaker. The paper «Syntaxe de la modalité explicite», which Charles Bally described as a program of studies, has not lost its relevance. The task of describing the semantic shades of modality, as well as various forms of its expression, the principles of classification of modal verbs outlined in the paper as the goal of linguistics, remains largely unresolved today.

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Li, Jian, Le Cheng, and Winnie Cheng. "Deontic meaning making in legislative discourse." Semiotica 2016, no. 209 (March 1, 2016): 323–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0002.

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AbstractModality and negation, as two important linguistic features used to realise subjectivity, have been investigated within various disciplines, such as logic, linguistics and philosophy, and law. The interaction between modality and negation, as a relatively new and undeveloped domain, has however not been paid due attention in scholarship. This corpus-based study investigates three aspects of their interaction: the differentiation of the deontic value by negation, the categorization of deontic modality in Hong Kong legislation via negation, and distribution patterns of deontic modality, especially distribution patterns of the negation of modality, in Hong Kong legislation. This study shows that negation is a powerful linguistic mechanism not only for determining the nature and functions of modality, but also for determining the value of modality. This study also reveals that negation helps us to investigate the distribution of deontic modality in Hong Kong legislation and hence revisit the legal framework in Hong Kong. A study taking into account the discursive and professional aspects of the interaction between deontic modality and negation will provide a theoretical basis for the natural language processing of modality and negation in legislation and also offer important implications for the study of negation and modality in general contexts.

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Kural, Murat. "Modality in Causatives." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 23, no. 1 (September 17, 1997): 224. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v23i1.1276.

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Cheng, Lisa Lai-Shen, and Rint Sybesma. "Forked modality." Linguistics in the Netherlands 20 (November 11, 2003): 13–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.20.05che.

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Abang Suhai, Dayang Sariah, Kesumawati A. Bakar, and Norsimah Mat Awal. "Modaliti dalam Wacana Perbahasan Parlimen (Modality in Parliamentary Debates)." GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies 20, no. 4 (November 27, 2020): 186–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2020-2004-11.

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Zenenko, N. "Functional-semantic interpretation of the desire modality in Ibero-Romance languages." Cuadernos Iberoamericanos, no. 2 (June 28, 2018): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.46272/2409-3416-2018-2-34-39.

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The article contains the analysis of the ways of expression of desire modality using functional-semantic approach. This approach, being productive in modern linguistic methodology is able to provide research strategy of semantic and functional properties of language units. Problems of desire modality are of great interest to modern linguistics. The author examines topical issues of functionalsemantic grammar, with an emphasis on functional-semantic category of desire.

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Magaña, Dalia. "Modality across genres in Spanish as a heritage language." Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34, no. 1 (July 22, 2021): 171–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/resla.18048.mag.

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Abstract Writers’ use of modality, an interpersonal linguistic resource commonly used for expressing probability, reveals key information about their claims. Most research on modality addresses L2 English learners, leaving a gap in research in advanced language development in other languages. This paper addresses this gap by studying how heritage language (HL) speakers of Spanish express doubt and probability in Spanish and how the lexicogrammatical features they use across genres reveal how they express these meanings. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics and pragmatics, this study examines modality in 125 texts written in Spanish by HL students in the U.S., including narratives, expositions, article reviews, personal responses, and research papers. The results reveal that students use the most modality resources in personal responses and the least in reviews. This work offers insights about the interpersonal resources writers choose to express their argumentative stance and the socio-pragmatic competence in writing among HL students.

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Tucker, Gordon H. "Possibly alternative modality." Aspects of “Interpersonal Grammar” 8, no. 2 (December 31, 2001): 183–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.8.2.03tuc.

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Despite the recognition of secondary ‘modal’ resources such as modal adjectives and adverbs, there has been relatively little discussion of the full extent of their contribution to the expression of modal meaning in general. In this corpus-based study, I focus exclusively on the adverb possibly and describe the range of environments that are revealed by a data set of 2000 randomly selected citations. On the basis of the observed data, I argue for a single core sense of possibly that distinguishes it both from modal operators, such as may/might and from closely related adverbs such as perhaps and maybe. I also argue that, beyond the stereotypical function of possibly as a modal adjunct, there is massive evidence to suggest that it functions additionally as a modalising element in units at the lower rank of group. I therefore propose a revision to the structure of these units to incorporate the expression of modal meaning.

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Costello, Brendan. "Language and modality." Sign Language and Linguistics 19, no. 2 (December 31, 2016): 270–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sll.19.2.06cos.

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Fu, Rongbo. "Translating like a conduit? A sociosemiotic analysis of modality in Chinese government press conference interpreting." Semiotica 2018, no. 221 (March 26, 2018): 175–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0035.

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AbstractThis paper is a corpus-based sociosemiotic inquiry into the translation of linguistic modality in government press conferences in the Chinese context, with an eye to its indication of interpreter’s identity. Viewing translation (including interpreting) as a process of social semiosis, the paper draws on theoretical insights from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and applies them to the analysis of modality in both English and Chinese – the language pair that concerns the present research. Results of the study show that, while modality distribution in the two languages are basically maintained at the same level, interchangeable uses between volitive and obligatory subtypes of modality plus the general increase of modality value in interpreted vis-à-vis source speeches indicate that interpreters are not deprived of mediating latitude which is believed to contradict their prescriptive stereotypes. Also, exemplary parallel concordance analysis of modality reveals that interpreters adopt various solutions to translating the same modal element. Further, the paper proposes a taxonomy for the analysis of modality shifts in interpreter-mediated encounters, with illustrative cases of each subclass examined and discussed. The findings are expected to shed light on the interpreter’s identity in political institutional settings.

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Błachowicz-Wolny, Anna. "Wyrażanie modalności w języku chorwackim, serbskim i polskim. Podobieństwa i różnice leksykalnych czasownikowych wykładników modalności." Poradnik Językowy, no. 2/2021(781) (February 27, 2021): 43–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.33896/porj.2021.2.4.

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This paper describes the similarities and differences between the lexical verbal exponents of modality in the Croatian, Serbian, and Polish languages. This study demonstrates the usages and meanings of the Croatian, Serbian, and Polish verbal lexemes: musieć (must / have to), móc (can/may), mieć możliwość (be able to), chcieć (want), and presents their classifi cation from the angle of alethic, epistemic, and deontic modality. Keywords: modality – alethic/epistemic/deontic modality – modal structure – lexical exponents of modality – Croatian language – Serbian language

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Gluckman, John, and Margit Bowler. "The expression of modality in Logoori." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 41, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 195–238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2020-2010.

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Abstract This study presents a theoretically informed description of the expression of modality in Logoori (Luyia; Bantu). We document verbal and non-verbal modal expressions in Logoori, and show how these expressions fit into proposed typologies of modal systems (Kratzer, Angelika. 1981. The notional category of modality. In Hans-Jurgen Eikmeyer & Hannes Rieser (eds.), Words, worlds, and contexts: New approaches in word semantics, 38–74. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Kratzer, Angelika. 1991. Modality. In Armin von Stechow & Dieter Wunderlich (eds.), Semantics: An international handbook of contemporary research, 639–650. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter; van der Auwera, Johan & Vladimir Plungian. 1998. Modality’s semantic map. Linguistic Typology 2. 79–124. https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.1998.2.1.79; Nauze, Fabrice. 2008. Modality in typological perspective. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation PhD thesis). We show that Logoori’s modal system raises some interesting questions regarding the typology and theoretical analysis of modality and its relationship to other kinds of meaning. Our study contributes to the nascent but growing research on modal systems cross linguistically by adding data from an understudied Bantu language.

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Winter, Simon, and Peter Gärdenfors. "Linguistic Modality as Expressions of Social Power." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 18, no. 2 (December 1995): 137–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586500000147.

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The semantics of the linguistic modals is argued to be determined mainly by the power structure of the participants in the interaction. In the deontic uses of the modals, another determining factor is the expectations of the participants' attitudes towards the relevant action. By viewing the evidence as a power in its own right, our analysis can be generalized to the epistemic uses in a coherent way. The epistemic uses are seen as pragmatic strengthenings of the deontic uses, rather than as metaphorical mappings.

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Khannanova, D. M. "The Modal Categories of Obligation and Necessity in Linguistics: the Identical, the Different, or the Included." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University 22, no. 2 (July 8, 2020): 558–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-2-558-564.

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The article describes the most inconsistent and contradictory modal categories of obligation and necessity presented in linguistics. Many scientific papers have been devoted to the study of modality in general and its particular varieties. Interest in its research is caused by the increased attention to the role of language as a means of communication and individualization of the human thought and speech process. The relevance of the problem is also in line with the general trend of improving, ordering, and systematizing the conceptual and terminological apparatus of linguistics. Subjective modality has a multiple semantics, various means of expression, and a number of possible relationships between form and content in the process of speech functioning. These characteristics result in contradictory and confusing interpretations of these categories in science. The research objective was to determine the content basis of these modalities and show how they are interdependent. The study was based on the methods of analysis, comparison, and generalization. The article focuses on the relationship between obligation and necessity in the general field of modality, as well as on their linguistic nature. The types of unreal modality proved to be different varieties of modality with a common area of semantics and use. The author generalized an extensive theoretical material on the categories of obligation and necessity, identified their meanings, and provided a basis for further research. The results of the analysis can also be used in courses of theoretical and applied philology.

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Toops, Gary H. "Mood and Modality (review)." Language 79, no. 4 (2003): 816–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2003.0272.

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Valentine Hacquard. "Modality (review)." Language 86, no. 3 (2010): 739–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2010.0001.

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Narrog, Heiko. "On defining modality again." Language Sciences 27, no. 2 (March 2005): 165–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2003.11.007.

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Cornillie, Bert. "Evidentiality and epistemic modality." Functions of Language 16, no. 1 (February 10, 2009): 44–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.16.1.04cor.

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This paper attempts to explain the terminological and conceptual confusion of evidentiality and epistemic modality. It presents a functionally oriented semantic analysis which does not belong to a specific theoretical framework. It shows that the alleged epistemic speaker commitment of evidential expressions does not come from the specific evidential value or mode of information, but rather boils down to the speaker’s and hearer’s interpretation of the source of information. A source of information can be attributed different degrees of reliability, but these should not automatically be translated into degrees of epistemic speaker commitment. The latter involves an evaluation of the likelihood, which is quite different from the evaluation of the reliability of the source of information. Thus, the account presented here challenges previous analyses in which the labels “epistemic” and “evidential” are applied to linguistic expressions either in too broad a way or in too exclusive a way. The analysis also contrasts with accounts based on the “inclusion” or the “overlap” of the two categories. Finally, the paper also discusses Nuyts’ (2004) claim that a clause can only have one qualification at a time.

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Broekhuis, Hans, and Henk J. Verkuyl. "Binary tense and modality." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 32, no. 3 (December 17, 2013): 973–1009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-013-9213-9.

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Leow, Ronald P. "Modality and Intake in Second Language Acquisition." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 17, no. 1 (March 1995): 79–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263100013784.

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This study replicates, in the aural mode, Leow's (1993) study on the effects of simplification, type of linguistic item, and second/foreign language experience on learners' intake of linguistic items contained in written input. Aural simplified/unsimplified input with either the present perfect or present subjunctive form was made available to learners at two levels of language experience. Statistical analyses performed on the raw scores of a pre- and posttest multiple-choice recognition assessment task revealed significant main effects for type of linguistic item, language experience, and task and a significant interaction between language experience and task. While results corroborate those found in the written mode for the effects of simplification and language experience on adult learners' intake, the same did not hold true for type of linguistic item, underscoring the need for research to consider seriously the role of modality while addressing cognitive processes in SLA.

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Rabadán, Rosa. "Modality and modal verbs in contrast." Languages in Contrast 6, no. 2 (December 15, 2006): 261–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.6.2.04rab.

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This paper addresses the question of how English and Spanish encode the modal meanings of possibility and necessity. English modals and Spanish modal periphrases emerge as ‘cross-linguistic equivalents’ in this area. Data from two monolingual ‘comparable’ corpora — the Bank of English and CREA — reveal (i) differences in grammatical conceptualization in the English and the Spanish traditions and (ii) the relative inadequacy of classifications of modality for a translation-oriented contrast in this area. An English-Spanish contrastive map of the semantics (and expressive means) of modality will be an effective way to make relevant and accurate cross-linguistic information available. It is also the first step towards identifying potential translation pitfalls.

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Salkie, Raphael, and Frank R. Palmer. "Mood and Modality." Modern Language Review 97, no. 2 (April 2002): 514. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3736976.

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Maynard, Senko K. "Pragmatics of discourse modality." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 1, no. 3 (September 1, 1991): 371–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.1.3.04may.

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Hsieh, Chen-Yu Chester. "Linguistic typology, language modality, and stuff like that." Studies in Language 43, no. 1 (June 12, 2019): 92–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.18009.hsi.

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Abstract Pragmatic particles termed general extenders (GE) have been examined across languages and are found to serve multiple functions. Despite the fruitful findings, few study the use of GEs in different language modalities and in typologically more different languages such as Chinese. This research aims to contribute to this literature by investigating the use of the GE zhilei(de) (zld), ‘of that kind,’ in spoken and written Chinese. Data from corpora of spoken and written Chinese suggest that zld displays some distinctive patterns in its form and function, partly due to the typological traits of Mandarin Chinese. The results also indicate that the language modality where zld is deployed may have impacts on its structural and functional distribution. The current article thus holds implications not only for the literature of GEs but also for the study of the interface between linguistic typology, language modality, and pragmatic expressions.

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Glüer, Kathrin, and Peter Pagin. "Relational Modality." Journal of Logic, Language and Information 17, no. 3 (May 14, 2008): 307–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10849-008-9059-4.

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Andersson, Erik. "Modality in Swedish." Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 81, no. 3 (2003): 845–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/rbph.2003.4759.

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Giacalone Ramat, Anna. "Grammaticalization of Modality in Language Acquisition." Studies in Language 23, no. 2 (November 12, 1999): 377–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.23.2.06gia.

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The present study aims to provide empirical evidence for a number of claims concerning the grammaticalization of deontic and epistemic modality. It is based on results from a research project on the acquisition of Italian as a second language conventionally called the "Pavia Project". The organization is as follows: first, the relevance of Second Language Acquisition for linguistic theory and — conversely — the relevance of linguistic theory for interpreting results of empirical studies are advocated. Then a theoretical framework is established and the polysemy of modal verbs is presented as an essential issue to the present study. In Section 5 information on research design and subjects is provided and results are discussed. The focus is on the order of emergence of modal distinctions in learner varieties and the types of encoding of modal notions preferred by learners. It will be shown that deontic modality is straightforwardly expressed through modal verbs, while epistemic modality is expressed through a number of different means. Conclusions are drawn, and implications for the study of modality and for principles governing learner languages are assessed.

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Bolotova, Elena. "Categories of personality, modality and their text-forming function." E3S Web of Conferences 273 (2021): 11020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127311020.

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This article covers the issues of studying and scientific linguistic explanation of the categories of personality, modality and their text-forming function. An important reason for referring to the fiction texts was interest in expanding the studied literary material in order to research text linguistics. The studies were carried out using fragments of texts by the following modern prose writers as (based on sentences-examples) Konchalovsky A., Marinina A.B., Ulitskaya L.E., Tokareva V.S. and Gladkiy V.D. The narrative text of the authors' works of fiction is analyzed as a united literary work, expressively combined with the variety of subject-speech planes, with the established various and complex functional relationships. The article represents personality and modality as an integrative text category that determines its cognitive content. Creation of different authors’ texts typology on a dominant basis of personality and modality is shown as a linguo-aesthetic text category of modality and personality, which characterizes a literary work when interacting.

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Cavazzana, Alessandro, and Marianna Bolognesi. "Uncanny resemblance." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7, no. 1 (August 19, 2020): 31–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00048.cav.

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Abstract What is the relation between the three following elements: words, pictures, and conceptual representations? And how do these three elements work, in defining and explaining metaphors? These are the questions that we tackle in our interdisciplinary contribution, which moves across cognitive linguistics, cognitive sciences, philosophy and semiotics. Within the cognitive linguistic tradition, scholars have assumed that there are equivalent and comparable structures characterizing the way in which metaphor works in language and in pictures. In this paper we analyze contextual visual metaphors, which are considered to be the most complex ones, and we compare them to those that in language are called indirect metaphors. Our proposal is that a syllogistic mechanism of comprehension permeates both metaphors expressed in the verbal modality as well as metaphors expressed in the pictorial modality. While in the verbal modality the metaphoric syllogism is solved by inference, we argue that in the pictorial modality the role of inference is performed through mental imagery.

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Narrog, Heiko. "Modality and grammaticalization in Japanese." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8, no. 2 (June 27, 2007): 269–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.8.2.06nar.

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Grammaticalization of modal markers has long been thought of in terms of change from deontic to epistemic meaning. This change, then, is typically thought of as a mapping between conceptual domains. Contrary to this perception, I argue in this paper that (1) change from deontic to epistemic (that is, the acquisition of epistemic meaning by deontic markers), although salient in many European languages, is cross-linguistically a marginal tendency, (2), the cross-linguistically most salient tendency in the development of modal markers is towards greater speaker-orientation, and (3), this change can best be explained by primarily referring to pragmatic processes, rather than conceptual processes. I substantiate my claims by analyzing the cross-linguistic modality data in Bybee et al. (1994), by providing a catalogue of etymologies of Modern Japanese modal markers, and by analyzing the polysemy and semantic change of one specific marker in Japanese language history (-be-si) in detail.

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Čermák, František, and Aleš Klégr. "Modality in Czech and English." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9, no. 1 (April 29, 2004): 83–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.9.1.05cer.

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The paper examines two kinds of modality exponents and their interlingual relationships, using an aligned parallel minicorpus of two contemporary Czech originals (drama and novel) and their English translations. It focuses on four most frequent Czech adverbial particles of possibility/approximation:snad, mozná, asi, nejspíe,and the Czech conditional mood marker by in the texts and their equivalents. It contrasts the findings with the equivalents in the latest and largest Czech-English dictionary. The results confirm that in either case the lexicographic description is insufficient both in the range of equivalents offered and their respective representativeness.

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DEPRAETERE, ILSE, and AN VERHULST. "Source of modality: a reassessment." English Language and Linguistics 12, no. 1 (March 2008): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674307002481.

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This article offers a description of the sources associated with the necessities expressed byhave toandmustin the ICE-GB corpus. It provides detailed comments on semantic and pragmatic features of the different sources, which are shown to be more diverse than has previously been claimed. The corpus analysis proves that the traditional distinction in meaning between so-called ‘objective’have toand ‘subjective’mustis not as outspoken as is assumed, and therefore results in a more accurate description of the similarities and differences in meaning between the two modal markers.

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Chen, Rong. "Modality in Contemporary English (review)." Language 82, no. 1 (2006): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2006.0015.

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Oliveira, Teresa. "Between evidentiality and epistemic modality." Evidentiality and the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 29 (December 31, 2015): 101–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.29.05oli.

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This paper aims to present an in-depth description of the synthetic and compound forms of the future and the conditional, as both inferential and reportative markers, drawing a framework for the respective distribution in Portuguese journalistic texts. A corpus analysis shows that different categories (evidentiality, modality, tense, and aspect) contribute to the construction of the values in question, defining different sets of properties for each of the verbal forms, in both inferential and reportative uses. Furthermore, it proves that these same values are particularly sensitive to textual genre: the reportative uses emerge in news reports, while the inferential uses appear more frequently in opinion texts. Ultimately, it illustrates how the use of these forms sheds light on the boundary between epistemic modality and evidentiality, demonstrating that the assertion of the information source is distinct from the assessment of the speaker’s attitude toward his/her statement.

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Espinal, M. Teresa. "Modal adverbs and modality scales." Lingua 72, no. 4 (August 1987): 293–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(87)90049-0.

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Morante, Roser, and Caroline Sporleder. "Modality and Negation: An Introduction to the Special Issue." Computational Linguistics 38, no. 2 (June 2012): 223–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00095.

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Traditionally, most research in NLP has focused on propositional aspects of meaning. To truly understand language, however, extra-propositional aspects are equally important. Modality and negation typically contribute significantly to these extra-propositional meaning aspects. Although modality and negation have often been neglected by mainstream computational linguistics, interest has grown in recent years, as evidenced by several annotation projects dedicated to these phenomena. Researchers have started to work on modeling factuality, belief and certainty, detecting speculative sentences and hedging, identifying contradictions, and determining the scope of expressions of modality and negation. In this article, we will provide an overview of how modality and negation have been modeled in computational linguistics.

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Durst-Andersen, Per. "Imperative frames and modality." Linguistics and Philosophy 18, no. 6 (December 1995): 611–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00983300.

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Darong, Hieronimus Canggung. "Interpersonal Function of Joe Biden’s Victory Speech (Systemic Functional Linguistics View)." Journal of Education Research and Evaluation 5, no. 1 (February 13, 2021): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.23887/jere.v5i1.31420.

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Text analysis was mainly concerned with the ideational function and textual function. Besides, macro aspect has been regarded as the most text structure examined in previous studies. Regardless of those three aspects, this study focused on the interpersonal function analysis of political speech text, by taking an example of Joe Biden’s victory speech. The purposed theory namely Systemic Functional Linguistics theory (SFL) was then applied to analyze the text. The analysis was conducted by modifying the speech text into clauses which were subsequently analyzed in accordance with the goal of the analysis. Data analysis revealed that the speech established an intimate relationship and a close distance with the audience. As such, the speaker enables to gain support and exchange information through the use of linguistics resources namely declarative clause in the mood structure, modality, and pronoun "we". As a conclusion, different use of mood, modality, and personal pronouns might determine the different level of interpersonal function of a text. This study has a great impact on language teaching and learning in terms of maintaining social relationships and exchanging meanings between teachers and students by taking into account the link between linguistic resources and the nature of texts.

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Phillips, Jonathan, and Joshua Knobe. "The psychological representation of modality." Mind & Language 33, no. 1 (January 7, 2018): 65–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12165.

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Marks, Allison R., and Robert G. Crowder. "Temporal distinctiveness and modality." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 23, no. 1 (1997): 164–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.23.1.164.

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Zhang, Jinghua. "A Semantic Approach to the English Modality." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 10, no. 4 (July 1, 2019): 879. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1004.28.

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Modality is a semantic concept dealing with necessity and possibility of the knowledge of the world. It is basically divided into two types, viz. epistemic modality and deontic modality. Various grammatical categories are possibly used to show modality. However, modal verbs are one of the most important means related to the modality. Modal verbs are flexible in showing modality. This article discusses basic knowledge of modality including definition, classification (epistemic and deontic) and relationship between modality and modal verbs etc.

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Gong, Mingyu, Winnie Cheng, and Le Cheng. "Development of deontic modality in Chinese civil laws." Pragmatics and Society 11, no. 3 (July 31, 2020): 337–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.16058.gon.

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Abstract In legislative texts, deontic modality helps define rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities. Based on a corpus of Chinese civil laws from 1949 to 2015, the study investigates the development of deontic modality in Chinese civil legislative discourse and examines the variations of deontic modality diachronically from a quantitative, functional perspective, thereby shedding lights on variations of legal text. This study shows that patterns of deontic modality manifest different features in different stages. The changes of linguistic forms of deontic modality show evidence of the adaptive feature in legal language. From a quantitative perspective, the study suggests that a corpus-driven approach helps examine the development and evolution of deontic modality diachronically. It also contributes to an understanding of deontic modality mechanisms by providing both empirical evidence and theoretical insights.

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Divjak, Dagmar, Natalia Levshina, and Jane Klavan. "“Cognitive Linguistics: Looking back, looking forward”." Cognitive Linguistics 27, no. 4 (November 1, 2016): 447–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2016-0095.

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AbstractSince its conception, Cognitive Linguistics as a theory of language has been enjoying ever increasing success worldwide. With quantitative growth has come qualitative diversification, and within a now heterogeneous field, different – and at times opposing – views on theoretical and methodological matters have emerged. The historical “prototype” of Cognitive Linguistics may be described as predominantly of mentalist persuasion, based on introspection, specialized in analysing language from a synchronic point of view, focused on West-European data (English in particular), and showing limited interest in the social and multimodal aspects of communication. Over the past years, many promising extensions from this prototype have emerged. The contributions selected for the Special Issue take stock of these extensions along the cognitive, social and methodological axes that expand the cognitive linguistic object of inquiry across time, space and modality.

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Haenko, Victoria. "Pragmatic essence of linguistic modality in media discourse." English and American Studies 1, no. 16 (September 7, 2019): 54–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/381906.

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The article deals with the problem of correlation between target socio groups in media discourse. It investigates the role modality plays as pragmatic-functional aspect of discourse analysis and studies modality as means of expressing evaluative meaning. The functional aspect of this view reflects the broad objectives of functional linguistics: i.e. relating linguistic structures to social structures. The pragmatic aspect reflects an emphasis that the reader is dependent on a corresponding view of the relationship between the reader, the writer and the text. The studies of modern linguists are broadly concerned with the analysis of ideology in discourse. The article observes the effects language can have on people, whether through journalistic writing, advertising literature, politics, science. The study became an attempt to investigate how and which aspects of language play more significant roles in ideology manipulating hearers / readers. It was seen that modality has not only received little consideration at the practical level, but that it had also been handled through the process of modal categorization; i.e. at the theoretical descriptive level. The theoretical aspect of the article is based on the belief that the speech is aimed at attaining certain goals or targets. The article deals with a problem of correlation and interaction between writer and reader, speaker and hearer, text producers and social actors in the process of interpretation. The article investigates the ways the problem can be settled in view of modality as a parameter of discourse analysis to define goals for the target groups outlined above. The study in the article refers to Halliday’s overarching functions: ideational, interpersonal and textual. The article concludes that the realiser of the interpersonal function of language, modality may be used as a linguistic tool to direct and control the behavior of the people.

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De Wit, Astrid, and Adeline Patard. "Modality, aspect and the progressive." Languages in Contrast 13, no. 1 (March 8, 2013): 113–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.13.1.06wit.

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This paper proffers a corpus-based study of the semantics of the French present progressive in comparison with its English equivalent. We describe the temporal and modal uses of ‘be + -ing’ and investigate to what extent they overlap with the uses of être + en train de. The observation that the use of the French present progressive is not obligatory and more restricted than that of the present progressive in English is taken as a sign of a less advanced stage of grammaticalization of the former. On the other hand, the two progressive constructions are alike in that they turn out to share the same basic, modal meaning, which we define as epistemic contingency in current reality. This meaning is, among other things, reflected in the (inter)subjective connotations that are often associated with the progressives.

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Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. "Modality from a Historical Perspective." Language and Linguistics Compass 5, no. 6 (June 2011): 381–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2011.00280.x.

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Furmaniak, Gregory. "A frame-based approach to modality." Framing 24 (December 10, 2010): 17–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.24.01fur.

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This paper sets out to demonstrate that the complex semantic structure underlying a modal concept such as OBLIGATION can only be characterized relative to a frame (or script) based on — but not limited to — a core force-dynamic configuration. It is assumed that the distributional properties of expressions of OBLIGATION throw light upon the more peripheral components of the script, among which the notion of volition is shown to play a substantial role. It is also argued that this script, conceived as a template, receives further semantic specifications when it is activated in discourse. These specifications account for the various uses of forms expressing the same notion. Finally, it is suggested that an analysis of other modal concepts along the same lines would provide a valuable insight into the semantics of modality as a conceptual category and a key to understanding the linguistic properties of modal expressions.

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Bromberek-Dyzman, Katarzyna, Katarzyna Jankowiak, and Paweł Chełminiak. "Modality matters: Testing bilingual irony comprehension in the textual, auditory, and audio-visual modality." Journal of Pragmatics 180 (July 2021): 219–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.05.007.

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Maalej, Zouhair. "Book Review: Modality in Contemporary English." Journal of English Linguistics 34, no. 1 (March 2006): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424206287590.

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