The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5827874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francisco J Alonso-Almeida (0000-0003-4676-3831, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Francisco Alonso-Almeida (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Laura Cruz García (0000-0001-7826-0142, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Laura Cruz-García (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 59-73 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | STAP (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0081-6272 • E-ISSN: 2082-5102 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.2478/v10121-010-0004-7 |
| OpenAlex | W1973275709 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 13 |
The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. Earlier works such as Lazard (2001) claim that English does not hold grammatical markers for the source of knowledge in contrast to other languages, e.g. Quechua, that seem to do so. Dendale and Tasmowski (2001), however, think that grammatical evidentials are possible in English, and Aikhenvald (2004) admits that modal verbs in English are a borderline case. In our article, we seek to explore the use of may and might in a corpus of medical abstracts to demonstrate (i) their value as grammatical evidential markers, and (ii) their value as epistemic markers that show the author's attitude to the proposition manifested. In doing so, we follow Cornillie (2009), who defines these two concepts as independent categories. The results of our analyses indicate that these modals may be used as grammatical markers of evidentiality, regardless of other semantic and pragmatic meanings
Epistemic modality · Evidentiality · Modality (human–computer interaction · Proposition · Value (mathematics · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
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Longman grammar of spoken and written English
Evidentiality and epistemic modality
Modal Expressions in English
Research article abstracts in applied linguistics and educational technology
Modality's semantic map
Modality in English and French
Adverbs and modality in English
Introduction
On the grammaticalization of evidentiality
Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads
The Interaction of Modality and Negation
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |