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Epistemic modals in early Modern English history texts. Analysis of gender variation

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dc.contributor.author Álvarez Gil, Francisco J. es_ES
dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-13T07:24:29Z
dc.date.available 2018-09-13T07:24:29Z
dc.date.issued 2018-07-13
dc.identifier.issn 1886-2438
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10251/107199
dc.description.abstract [EN] In the present study, samples of late Modern English scientific texts have been analysed to evaluate cases of epistemic modality as realised by modal verbs. The aim of this research was to detect if there exist variances in the way modals are used in historical texts from a gender perspective. For this, I have interrogated the Corpus History English Texts (1700-1900) which is part of The Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Texts, which contains history texts written by male and female authors. I have used the Coruña Corpus Tool for retrieval, although manual analyses have been carried out as well. Each of the occurrences found have been categorised according to their contextual meanings. The results obtained account for a high frequency on the usage of these modal verbs according to gender and the diverse pragmatic functions these modal verbs accomplish in the communicative process, such as mitigation and negative politeness. From a pragmatic perspective, epistemic modals have the potential to allow negotiation of meaning between writers and their audience among other functions. es_ES
dc.language Inglés es_ES
dc.publisher Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València
dc.relation.ispartof Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas
dc.rights Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada (by-nc-nd) es_ES
dc.subject Epistemic meaning es_ES
dc.subject Modality es_ES
dc.subject Modal verbs es_ES
dc.subject Early Modern English es_ES
dc.title Epistemic modals in early Modern English history texts. Analysis of gender variation es_ES
dc.type Artículo es_ES
dc.date.updated 2018-09-12T10:57:14Z
dc.identifier.doi 10.4995/rlyla.2018.7801
dc.rights.accessRights Abierto es_ES
dc.description.bibliographicCitation Álvarez Gil, FJ. (2018). Epistemic modals in early Modern English history texts. Analysis of gender variation. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas. 13:13-20. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2018.7801 es_ES
dc.description.accrualMethod SWORD es_ES
dc.relation.publisherversion https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2018.7801 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpinicio 13 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpfin 20 es_ES
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion es_ES
dc.description.volume 13
dc.identifier.eissn 1886-6298
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