Aug 2026· Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT· 0 citations· 13 references
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This study investigates the contribution of lexical and grammatical modality devices towards conveying intentionality in media discourse through a comparative analysis of feature journalism articles from The Times of India (TOI) and The Los Angeles Times (The LA Times). Mixed-methods corpus-assisted discourse analysis was employed on 20 climate feature articles. There were 85 lexical modal markers and 81 grammatical markers identified in the dataset. Findings show that TOI employs more epistemic modals such as “may” and “could” (over 50% of its modal verbs) and passive voice (15 times), indicative of a conservative, fact-reporting tone. The LA Times, on the other hand, uses more deontic modals (must, should) and evaluative adverbs (nine compared to three for TOI), and recurring conditional clauses (14 times), connoting urgency and commanding force. These patterns demonstrate how modality is not only a semantic category but also a rhetorical tool that resonates with journalistic intentionality, building persuasion, hedging, and depersonalization.
The aim of this research is to develop a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the modal phenomenon by exploring the commonalities, interrelations, and distinctions among lexical, grammatical, and modal meanings. This study seeks to examine the origins and historical development of modal words in the language and...
K. Ashinova, B. T. Sydykova, G. Orynkhanova et al.· Bulletin of Toraighyrov Univ...· 0 citations
Pragmatics represents a vital extension of modern linguistics, transcending the formal structural boundaries of the sentence to enter the realm of live communication among language users. The significance of this field lies in its ability to explain how discourse meets the needs of human interaction, conveying the spea...
Mohammed Al-Khaqani, Haider Al-Shaibani· Nanar Journal for Humanities...· 0 citations
This article examines the communicative-pragmatic functions of hyponymy in English and Uzbek media texts. Hyponymy is usually studied as a paradigmatic relation within the lexical system; this study treats it as a discourse resource that journalists deploy to achieve specific communicative aims. The research material c...
Nargiza Jumabayeva· International Journal Of Lit...· 0 citations
We analyze the use and distribution of Spanish synthetic and periphrastic future-inflected
wh
-interrogatives in a corpus of informal Spanish conversations, within Linell’s (2009) Dialogical Theory of
Language. Our corpus analysis reveals that future-inflected interrogatives realize three types of discourse func...
Malte Rosemeyer, María Sol Sansiñena· Pragmatics: Quarterly Public...· 0 citations
This article examines the linguistic change undergone by the verb
valer
, which gave rise to the pragmatic marker
vale
(‘ok’). On the one hand, it seeks to identify the context(s) in which the construction was coopted and explore the relational links (Traugott & Trousdale, 2013). On the other, it aims to clarif...
Ana Belén Llopis Cardona· International Review of Prag...· 0 citations
Thepaper examines the syntactic processes involved in the expression of modality in English and Fulfulde spoken in Adamawa State. The aim is to analyse how modality is structurally realised in both languages, with specific objectives to: describe the syntactic processes involved, compare their modal structures, and jus...
Bamanga Aliyu, Isa AdamuHaliru, Sumayyat Ibrahim Gambo· SOKOTO JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC...· 0 citations
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