Ways of Expressing Epistemic Modality in English and French.: A Linguistic Approach to Usage of Epistemic Modality Phenomenon: A Comparative Study on Two Languages. - Couverture souple

Melnic, Elena

 
9783838375328: Ways of Expressing Epistemic Modality in English and French.: A Linguistic Approach to Usage of Epistemic Modality Phenomenon: A Comparative Study on Two Languages.
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ISBN 10 : 3838375327 ISBN 13 : 9783838375328
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Epistemic modality is one of the three kinds of modality, which expresses a judgment about the truth of a proposition (whether it is possible, probable or necessarily true). The term ?epistemic? was borrowed from Greek and means ?knowledge, understanding?. This study may be helpful both for students who study English and French as foreign languages (to apply the grammatically correct ways of expressing epistemic modality ? modality of judgment) and researches that use scientific vocabulary for writing scientific papers (they will be probably interested in the subchapter describing impersonal constructions used in scientific prose mostly). The comparative study is performed on the basis of more than 500 examples that range from fiction, articles to scientific proceedings, aiming to present epistemic modality in nearly all styles. The work clearly shows that only the integral analysis of minimum two languages permits to make a unique and precise investigation of modality, this polisemantic, multidimensional, multifunctional - the most controversial phenomenon of English and French grammar.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Epistemic modality is one of the three kinds of modality, which expresses a judgment about the truth of a proposition (whether it is possible, probable or necessarily true). The term ?epistemic? was borrowed from Greek and means ?knowledge, understanding?. This study may be helpful both for students who study English and French as foreign languages (to apply the grammatically correct ways of expressing epistemic modality ? modality of judgment) and researches that use scientific vocabulary for writing scientific papers (they will be probably interested in the subchapter describing impersonal constructions used in scientific prose mostly). The comparative study is performed on the basis of more than 500 examples that range from fiction, articles to scientific proceedings, aiming to present epistemic modality in nearly all styles. The work clearly shows that only the integral analysis of minimum two languages permits to make a unique and precise investigation of modality, this polisemantic, multidimensional, multifunctional - the most controversial phenomenon of English and French grammar.

Biographie de l'auteur

Elena Melnic was born on the 29th of May 1982 in a small town Tiraspol, Moldova. She is a graduate of Moldova State University, English Phylology Department. Her specialization is English and French languages. Elena adores reading and listening to english songs. Her first job was a teacher of English. At present she works as an Acquisition Editor.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3838375327
ISBN 13 
9783838375328
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Broché
Nombre de pages
104
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