Relevance and modality
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Title: | Relevance and modality |
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Authors: | Berbeira Gardón, José Luis |
Keywords: | Teoría de la relevancia | Verbos modales | Valor semántico | Modalidad | Semántica cognitiva |
Issue Date: | Nov-1998 |
Publisher: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa |
Citation: | BERBEIRA GARDÓN, José Luis. “Relevance and modality”. Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses. No. 11 (Nov. 1998). ISSN 0214-4808, pp. 3-22 |
Abstract: | This paper sets out to reasess some relevance-theoretic analyses of the English modals, in particular Walton (1988), Groefsema(1995), Klinge (1993) and Berbeira Gardón (1996a), and show how a unified treatment of modal verbs is possible within the framework of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. Before going through each of these proposals one by one, a summary is offered of the main theoretical assumptions common to all of them. In the last two sections, it is argued that a unified account of the English modals can be given if we assume that they encode that the state of affairs described in the proposition expressed is located in a potential world. This proposal draws heavily on Wilson and Sperber's (1988) account of non-declarative sentences. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/5362 | http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.1998.11.02 |
ISSN: | 0214-4808 |
DOI: | 10.14198/raei.1998.11.02 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Appears in Collections: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses - 1998, No. 11 |
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