Dear All,
Hello.. my name is Mai Zaki, I am an M.A. researcher and a university staff
member from Egypt. The linguistic point I am investigating in my thesis is
the English modal verbs from a relevance-theoretic perspective. I am
attempting a corpus analysis of the modals in the domain of political
speeches and press conferences.
I would appreciate it if anyone working on the same topic could share views,
especially that modality is a challenging topic and in relevance-theoretic
terms there are various theoetical models. So far, I have identified 5
different models: Walton (1988), Klinge (1993), Groefsema (1995), Berbeira
Gardon (1996) and Papafragou (1998). any other models to add?
Looking forward to exchanging information about this.
Thank you.
Mai
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