The expression of modality in English
The purpose of this work is to examine the various ways in which modality is expressed in English. Firstly, the fundamental concept 'possible worlds' and a view of modality as 'relativization 1 is proposed. The way in which the concept of modality is related to utterance functions is...
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University of South Wales
1980
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279836 |