Título: | A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF MODALITY USAGE IN ACADEMIC ENGLISH CONTEXTS |
Autores: | Piqué, Jordi ; Posteguillo, Santiago ; Andreu-Besó, J.Vicent |
Tipo de documento: | texto impreso |
Editorial: | Universidad de Sevilla // UNED, 2017-02-01 |
Dimensiones: | application/pdf |
Nota general: |
ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada; Núm. 2 (2001); 213-224 2253-8283 1576-5059 Copyright (c) 2017 ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
Idiomas: | Español |
Palabras clave: | ARTÍCULOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN / RESEARCH ARTICLES |
Resumen: | AbstractIn our pragmatic approach to research articles (RAs), we take a look at one of the main characteristics of academic writing: the use of modalized statements. Modalization, in the form of modal verbs, has been extensively studied by ESP researchers and practitioners. Most of their studies, however, have slightly touched upon the distinction between epistemic modality, which questions the certainty or probability of a statement, and deontic modality, which lays obligations or gives permission to the audience. This dichotomy is an important tool to describe disciplinary variations in academic and professional writing. We contend that different disciplines favor different types of modality. Results in this study indicate that health science RAs mostly use epistemic modality, whereas literary criticism RAs combine the use of both epistemic and deontic modality. |
En línea: | http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ELIA/article/view/18264 |
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