The study is a linguistic analysis of modality in the first English version of More’s Utopia by Ralph Robinson (1551). SHALL, MUST, SHOULD have been examined in relation to their semantic (Palmer 1990, 2001) and pragmatic values (Austin 1962; Searle 1969, 1983), and force (Fairclough 1995), as well as in relations set up by collocation and/or co-occurrence (Hoye 1997).
Semantic and pragmatic shades of modal meaning in Utopia / Polese, Vanda. - STAMPA. - Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication. Vol. 11:(2003), pp. 223-257.
Semantic and pragmatic shades of modal meaning in Utopia
POLESE, VANDA
2003
Abstract
The study is a linguistic analysis of modality in the first English version of More’s Utopia by Ralph Robinson (1551). SHALL, MUST, SHOULD have been examined in relation to their semantic (Palmer 1990, 2001) and pragmatic values (Austin 1962; Searle 1969, 1983), and force (Fairclough 1995), as well as in relations set up by collocation and/or co-occurrence (Hoye 1997).File in questo prodotto:
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