Sökning: "epistemic modality"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 uppsatser innehållade orden epistemic modality.

1. 1. Modal auxiliaries in English and Swedish A contrastive study of English can/could, may/might, and Swedish kunna and få

   Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Gustav Landälv; [2024-01-22]
   Nyckelord :Modal auxiliaries; English; epistemic modality; dynamic modality; deontic modality; can; could; may; might; kan; kunde; får; fick;

   Sammanfattning : The results suggest that English can and could, when expressing dynamic modality, are mainly translated as respectively kan and kunde. When omitted in the translation, the main verb with which they co occur is often a verb of perception, such as see, or a private verb involving a thought process, like understand or remember. LÄS MER

3. 2. Modality in Spiritual Literature : A Corpus Aided Discourse Study on Sadhguru and Eckhart Tolle

   Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :SHOWMIK JOY BHOWMIK; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Spirituality; mystics; modality; modal shading; epistemic; deontic; bigrams; CADS;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates and discusses how two spiritual teachers from different parts of the world interact with their devotees, what the probable impacts of their interaction are, and whether they speak similarly or differently based on the use of modal auxiliary verbs and pronouns. Linguistically speaking, the mystics mostly have to address their audience/readers in a particular manner with expressions which represent certainty, possibility, obligation and so on; thus, a study of such is necessary and modal auxiliary verbs represent such expressions. LÄS MER

4. 3. Probably certain : Translating hedges in academic research articles from Swedish to English

   Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Bianca Seydel; [2020]
   Nyckelord :adaptation; addition; cultural filter; epistemic modality; equivalence; faithful translation; hedges; hedging; L2 learner; omission; scientific research articles; translation;

   Sammanfattning : While it certainly can be argued that translation is a quite demanding discipline in general, some areas within this field are, naturally, more challenging than others. One of these is hedging, which serves a broad variety of purposes both with regard to the author and to the intended readership, and hence must be translated accordingly. LÄS MER

5. 4. Internationell dialog i Sergej Lavrovs Arktisdiskurs : En analys av epistemisk modalitet som uttryck för diskursiva strategier

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för moderna språk

   Författare :Hanna Mattsson; [2020]
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   Sammanfattning : This study explores the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov’s, use of epistemic modality as means of discursive strategies during the period January 2019 - March 2020, and how these strategies frame the topic of International dialogue in the contemporary Russian Arctic discourse. The study employs discourse analysis as theory as well as method on an empirical material consisting of official texts that were published by the Russian Foreign Ministry. LÄS MER

7. 5. Epistemic modality in Ghanaian Pidgin English

   Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Författare :Anton Harry Nordén; [2016]
   Nyckelord :Epistemic modality; evidentiality; Ghanaian Pidgin English; corpus analysis; Epistemisk modalitet; evidentialitet; ghanansk pidginengelska; korpusanalys;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates the expression of epistemic modality in a corpus of Ghanaian Pidgin English (GhaPE). The epistemic expressions are manually identified and thereafter distinguished from each other in terms of grammatical status and their indication of different epistemic and evidential notions. LÄS MER