Modality in Grammar and Discourse

Bybee, Joan; Fleischman, Suzanne (eds.)

ISBN 10: 1556196393 / ISBN 13: 9781556196393

Editore: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, 1995

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Hardcover without jacket; leading corners very faintly bent. One or two marks on page block face. Name of previous owner (linguistics professor Suzanne Romaine) penned on front pastedown. Erratum slip laid-in. Pages are clean, bright and sound throughout; all text clear. Typological Studies in Language series volume 32. TS.

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• Titolo: Modality in Grammar and Discourse
• Editore: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam / Philadelphia
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1556196393
• ISBN 13: 9781556196393
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket
• Tipo di libro: Used
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Language & Communication

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This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations — all within the broad domain of functional linguistics — they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.