A study of epistemic modality in academic and popularised discourse: the case of possibility adverbs perhaps, maybe and possibly
This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a cross-disciplinary corpus of academic and popularised scientific writing. It accounts for their higher frequency in popularised discourse by investigating their functions in detail. The analysis, conducted from various perspectives (sy...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | España |
| Repositorio: | accedaCRIS portal de investigación de la Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:accedacris.ulpgc.es:10553/11196 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/11196 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | 570107 Lengua y literatura 550510 Filología |
| Resumo: | This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a cross-disciplinary corpus of academic and popularised scientific writing. It accounts for their higher frequency in popularised discourse by investigating their functions in detail. The analysis, conducted from various perspectives (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and rhetorical), suggests that two factors are at work: the evidential basis for the epistemic assessment and the mode of discourse the marker is most closely associated with. |
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