Modal verbs in academic papers in the field of tourism
Abstract The present study examines modal verb meanings and variation in these verbs in a corpus of texts in the field of tourism. We use a compilation of article introductions and conclusions written in English and published in leading journals specialised in tourism studies. Modal verbs are import...
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oai:scielo:S0718-093420210002005492021-07-28Modal verbs in academic papers in the field of tourismÁlvarez-Gil,Francisco J.Domínguez Morales,María Elena Corpus linguistics modal verbs academic language tourism pragmatic function Abstract The present study examines modal verb meanings and variation in these verbs in a corpus of texts in the field of tourism. We use a compilation of article introductions and conclusions written in English and published in leading journals specialised in tourism studies. Modal verbs are important to evince the authors’ stance concerning the propositional content (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan, 1999; Palmer, 2001). Our main areas of concern are variation in the appearance and use of modal verbs in the introduction and conclusion sections of scientific research articles in terms of their forms and meaning, and variation in the functions of modal verbs in these sections. Variation ratios will be evaluated using a log-likelihood test to determine differences in significance between occurrences in introductions and conclusions. Our conclusions will report, therefore, on the forms, meanings and functions of modal verbs in the sections analysed.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del LenguajeRevista signos v.54 n.106 20212021-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-09342021000200549en10.4067/S0718-09342021000200549 |
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Corpus linguistics modal verbs academic language tourism pragmatic function Álvarez-Gil,Francisco J. Domínguez Morales,María Elena Modal verbs in academic papers in the field of tourism |
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Abstract The present study examines modal verb meanings and variation in these verbs in a corpus of texts in the field of tourism. We use a compilation of article introductions and conclusions written in English and published in leading journals specialised in tourism studies. Modal verbs are important to evince the authors’ stance concerning the propositional content (Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan, 1999; Palmer, 2001). Our main areas of concern are variation in the appearance and use of modal verbs in the introduction and conclusion sections of scientific research articles in terms of their forms and meaning, and variation in the functions of modal verbs in these sections. Variation ratios will be evaluated using a log-likelihood test to determine differences in significance between occurrences in introductions and conclusions. Our conclusions will report, therefore, on the forms, meanings and functions of modal verbs in the sections analysed. |
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Álvarez-Gil,Francisco J. Domínguez Morales,María Elena |
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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje |
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