English Modality in Perspective: Genre Analysis and Contrastive Studies: 1 (English Corpus Linguistics) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0820464988 ISBN 13: 9780820464985

Verlag: PETER LANG, 2004

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Reseña del editor:

The analysis and theoretical description of modality may be grammar-centred, semantic- or pragmatic-oriented, and may refer to the content of the linguistic act, or to the contextual situation, or again to the interlocutors of the speech act itself. Such approaches are only some of the multiple perspectives - each one complementing the other - from which the kaleidoscopic modal system can be studied. The editors of this collection of papers bear all these perspectives in mind and focus their attention on specialized genres, on the one hand, and on the similarities to and differences from a few English modal expressions that are found in other languages, on the other. All the papers in this volume exhibit an interesting balance between theory and practice, in so much as they all make use of computerized linguistic corpora in order to test, confirm or disclaim previously illustrated theories or intuitions, or to provide ground for new hypotheses.

Biografía del autor:

Roberta Facchinetti is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Verona, Italy. Her research field and publications are mainly concerned with language description, textual analysis and pragmatics. This is done mostly by means of computerized corpora of both synchronic and diachronic English.

Frank Palmer is Professor Emeritus of the University of Reading. He was educated at New College and Merton College, Oxford (1940-49), with a break for war service, and was a Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1950-60), Professor and Head of Department of Linguistics at The University College of North Wales (1960-65) and Professor and Head of Department of Linguistic Science at the University of Reading (1965-87). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea and an Honorary Doctor of Letters. He has lectured on English Grammar and on Linguistics in every continent, in over thirty different countries.

Joybrato Mukherjee, geboren 1973, 1992-1997 Studium der Anglistik und Biologie in Aachen, bis 2000 Promotionsstudium in Bonn sowie Referendariat und Tatigkeit im gymnasialen Schuldienst, seit 2000 wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Englischen Seminar der Universitat Bonn, nebenamtlich fur die Bezirksregierung Koln in der Lehrerfortbildung tatig.

Roberta Facchinetti is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Verona, Italy. Her research field and publications are mainly concerned with language description, textual analysis and pragmatics. This is done mostly by means of computerized corpora of both synchronic and diachronic English.

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• Verlag: PETER LANG
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0820464988
• ISBN 13: 9780820464985
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273
• Herausgeber: Facchinetti Roberta, Palmer Frank, Kohnen Thomas