Sökning: "deontic and epistemic modality"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden deontic and epistemic modality.

  1. 1. (De)coding Modality : The Case of Must, May, Måste and Kan

    Författare :Anna Wärnsby; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; semiotics; syntax; modal verbs; modality; English-Swedish Parallel Corpus; epistemic; deontic; dynamic; indeterminacy; Controllability; Transitivity; Data Mining; pragmatics; Engelska språk och litteratur ; semantics; Grammar; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the mechanisms of (de)coding modality, focusing on the interpretation of utterances containing the modals must, may, måste, and kan. The main research question posed in this study is what enables the interlocutors to interpret modal expressions so that communicative goals are achieved. LÄS MER

  3. 2. L’atténuation en traduction : Étude traductologique des marqueurs de probabilité en français et en suédois

    Författare :Sofia Wastesson; Olof Eriksson; Hans Petter Helland; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; epistemic markers; modality; epistemic modality; evidentiality; modal particle; modal adverb; modal auxiliairy; mental state predicate; translation studies; comparative study; translationese; French language; Franska språket; Franska med språkvetenskaplig inriktning; French linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a comparative study of how epistemic markers in French and Swedish are treated in translation. The study focuses on epistemic markers indicating high probability, such as säkert, nog, jag tror (att) and epistemic (not deontic) måste in Swedish, and, in French, certainement, sans doute, je crois (que), epistemic devoir etc. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Modality in Kazakh as spoken in China

    Författare :Aynur Abish; Eva Agnes Csato Johanson; Lars Johanson; László Károly; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Turkic languages; Kazakh; modality; Turkiska språk; Turkic languages;

    Sammanfattning : This is a comprehensive study on expressions of modality in one of the largest Turkic languages, Kazakh, as it is spoken in China. Kazakh is the official language of the Republic of Kazakhstan and is furthermore spoken by about one and a half million people in China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and in Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County in Gansu Province. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Verbal Meaning: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Framework for Interpretive Categories of the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System as Elaborated in the Book of Ruth

    Författare :Bo-Krister Ljungberg; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; perspe; grounding; text linguistics; subordination; mood; modality; tense; temporal location; aspect; ideology; level; pragmatics; semantics; syntax; communicative dimensions; Old testament exegesis; book of Ruth; verbal system; Framework; biblical Hebrew; Bible; Bibelvetenskap; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : The verbal system of Biblical Hebrew has intrigued the minds of exegetes, linguists, theologians, and translators for centuries. With regard to the verbal system, Biblical Hebrew is radically different from Modern Hebrew. Furthermore, it doesn't fit the traditional structure of grammar modelled on Latin. LÄS MER