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| Author | : Senko K. Maynard |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 1993-01-01 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9027250367 |
The emotional aspects of language have so far not received the attention they deserve. This study focuses on nonpropositional, i.e. expressive and interactional meanings of Japanese signs, with special emphasis on understanding their cognitive, psychological and social meanings. It shows how the Japanese language is richly endowed to express personal voice and emotive nuances, and confronts the theoretical issues related to this. The author proposes a new theoretical framework for Discourse Modality, a primary concern for Japanese speakers, to analyze the 'expressiveness' of language.
| Author | : Joan L. Bybee |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 586 |
| Release | : 1995-08-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027285721 |
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations — all within the broad domain of functional linguistics — they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.
| Author | : Jan Nuyts |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 689 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0199591431 |
This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examine the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Following an opening section that provides an introduction and historical background to the topic, the volume is divided into five parts. Parts 1 and 2 present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the languages of the world, covering the semantics and the expression of different subtypes of modality and mood respectively. The authors also examine the interaction of modality and mood, mutually and with other semantic categories such as aspect, time, negation, and evidentiality. In Part 3, authors discuss the features of the modality and mood systems in five typologically different language groups, while chapters in Part 4 deal with wider perspectives on modality and mood: diachrony, areality, first language acquisition, and sign language. Finally, Part 5 looks at how modality and mood are handled in different theoretical approaches: formal syntax, functional linguistics, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar, and formal semantics.
| Author | : Paul Portner |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2009-01-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191558966 |
This is a book about semantic theories of modality. Its main goal is to explain and evaluate important contemporary theories within linguistics and to discuss a wide range of linguistic phenomena from the perspective of these theories. The introduction describes the variety of grammatical phenomena associated with modality, explaining why modal verbs, adjectives, and adverbs represent the core phenomena. Chapters are then devoted to the possible worlds semantics for modality developed in modal logic; current theories of modal semantics within linguistics; and the most important empirical areas of research. The author concludes by discussing the relation between modality and other topics, especially tense, aspect, mood, and discourse meaning. Paul Portner's accessible guide to this key area of current research will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.
| Author | : B. Pizziconi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2009-10-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0230245757 |
This book explores the nature and scope of modality in Japanese. It contains a review of the history of Japanese modality studies, as well as theoretical and empirical research and is the first collection of studies on Japanese modality written in English and offers a stimulating contrast to existing studies on Western languages.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2023-12-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004653635 |
The twenty papers of this volume - published to honour Gunnel Tottie - are of interest to everyone concerned with the study of the English language. The collection is a convincing argument for an approach to language studies based on the analysis of computerized corpora. Though this is not an introduction to the field but a series of highly specialized studies, readers get a good overview of the work being done at present in English computer corpus studies. English corpus linguistics, though basically concerned with the study of varieties of English, goes far beyond the simple ordering and counting of large numbers of examples but is deeply concerned with linguistic theory - based on real language data. The volume includes sections on corpora of written and spoken present-day English, historical corpora, contrastive corpora, and on the application of corpus studies to teaching purposes.
| Author | : Juana I. Marín-Arrese |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 459 |
| Release | : 2013-12-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110286327 |
The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.
| Author | : Paul Portner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0199292426 |
This comprehensive review and critical synthesis of research on modality focuses on formal theories within linguistics and related aspects of philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by students of linguistics at graduate level and above, as well as by researchers in philosophy, computational science, and related fields.
| Author | : Ursula Stephany |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 685 |
| Release | : 2021-03-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1501504355 |
This book deals with the development of modality from a crosslinguistic perspective and is closely related to two earlier volumes on the development of verb and nominal inflection in first language acquisition (SOLA 21 and 30) both methodologically and theoretically. Each of the fourteen contributions studies the early development of the form and function of expressions of deontic and dynamic agent-oriented modality or epistemic and evidential propositional modality in one of fourteen languages belonging to different morphological types and language families (seven Indo-European and seven non-Indo-European). The analyses are mainly based on longitudinal observations of children in their 2nd and 3rd years of life in conversational interaction with their caregivers, mostly the mothers. Main issues addressed are the development of directives and modulations of information in terms of certainty and evidentiality, also taking into account children’s developing social-pragmatic and cognitive skills. One of the main findings is that agent-oriented and propositional modality may develop in parallel depending on the typological characteristics of the language acquired. The decisive factor is whether notions of propositional modality are grammaticized and obligatorily expressed in the language. The findings are interpreted within non-nativist theoretical frameworks (Usage-based theories, Natural Morphology).
| Author | : Norbert Dittmar |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2011-05-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110856999 |
Modality in Language Acquisition / Modalité et acquisition des langues
