Modelling through Modality: (Re)shaping Brexit
Due to Brexit, the UK has been involved in a continuous political debate between Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition. This paper compares and analyses the modality used in a corpus consisting of their political speeches until Brexit day. Modal verbs ar...
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oai:doaj.org-article:5bb4d0383fbd4294b244187325f3c8d92021-11-11T12:48:12ZModelling through Modality: (Re)shaping Brexit10.24197/ersjes.42.2021.127-1532531-16462531-1654https://doaj.org/article/5bb4d0383fbd4294b244187325f3c8d92021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/5620https://doaj.org/toc/2531-1646https://doaj.org/toc/2531-1654 Due to Brexit, the UK has been involved in a continuous political debate between Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition. This paper compares and analyses the modality used in a corpus consisting of their political speeches until Brexit day. Modal verbs are used to express ability, possibility, willingness, certainty, obligation and necessity. Politicians’ choice of certain words can be a useful tool to affect voters’ decisions and modality is a resource which reinforces that influence. The findings show remarkable similarities between both politicians and reveal that possibility is the most frequent meaning of the modal verbs used in the corpus. Aroa Orrequia-BareaEncarnación Almazán RuizUniversidad de ValladolidarticleBrexitmodal verbsmodalitypolitical discoursecorpus linguisticsEnglish languagePE1-3729English literaturePR1-9680ENES Review, Iss 42 (2021) |
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Due to Brexit, the UK has been involved in a continuous political debate between Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition. This paper compares and analyses the modality used in a corpus consisting of their political speeches until Brexit day. Modal verbs are used to express ability, possibility, willingness, certainty, obligation and necessity. Politicians’ choice of certain words can be a useful tool to affect voters’ decisions and modality is a resource which reinforces that influence. The findings show remarkable similarities between both politicians and reveal that possibility is the most frequent meaning of the modal verbs used in the corpus.
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