This paper attempts to analyse the presence of the modal auxiliaries can and may as markers of authorial evaluation in a corpus of introductions and conclusions to computing research articles. Bearing in mind the semantic familiarity of these two modals, we start from Martin and White’s Appraisal framework, whose focus is on the interpersonal in language, the subjective presence of authors in their texts, and the stances they take both towards those texts and their readers. In particular, we extend Martin and White’s notions on epistemic modality and evidentiality, which they interpret from a co-textual and contextual point of view, and use Alonso-Almeida’s views on epistemicity as a pragmatic eff ect of evidential strategies. An important...
In our pragmatic approach to research articles (RAs), we take a look at one of the main characterist...
The aim of the present paper is to investigate the frequency and distribution patterns as well as th...
Leading studies of the English modal auxiliaries generally classify the epistemic category as bearer...
Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. E...
This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a cross- disciplinary corpus of acade...
Modality is a grammatical category expressed by means of grammatical and lexical resources. Evidenti...
[EN] This paper studies evidentiality in a corpus of medical research papers in English and Spanish....
In this paper a cross-disciplinary study of the use of epistemic markers as hedging rhetorical strat...
[EN] Evidentiality and textual modality are widely debated fi eld categories within the areas of lin...
This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of variation in the distribution and function of modals...
Epistemic possibility operates with may and interchangeably with might that introduce a direct-unobs...
[Abstract] Scientific discourse has been traditionally described as a register deprived of subjectiv...
TIMÓTEO, Lidianeiza de Moura. As manifestações epistêmicas e evidenciais como marcas de (des)comprom...
This study aims to identify the use of linguistic feature of evaluative stance found in research art...
This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this...
In our pragmatic approach to research articles (RAs), we take a look at one of the main characterist...
The aim of the present paper is to investigate the frequency and distribution patterns as well as th...
Leading studies of the English modal auxiliaries generally classify the epistemic category as bearer...
Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. E...
This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a cross- disciplinary corpus of acade...
Modality is a grammatical category expressed by means of grammatical and lexical resources. Evidenti...
[EN] This paper studies evidentiality in a corpus of medical research papers in English and Spanish....
In this paper a cross-disciplinary study of the use of epistemic markers as hedging rhetorical strat...
[EN] Evidentiality and textual modality are widely debated fi eld categories within the areas of lin...
This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of variation in the distribution and function of modals...
Epistemic possibility operates with may and interchangeably with might that introduce a direct-unobs...
[Abstract] Scientific discourse has been traditionally described as a register deprived of subjectiv...
TIMÓTEO, Lidianeiza de Moura. As manifestações epistêmicas e evidenciais como marcas de (des)comprom...
This study aims to identify the use of linguistic feature of evaluative stance found in research art...
This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this...
In our pragmatic approach to research articles (RAs), we take a look at one of the main characterist...
The aim of the present paper is to investigate the frequency and distribution patterns as well as th...
Leading studies of the English modal auxiliaries generally classify the epistemic category as bearer...