New publication - ENGLISH MODALITY: CORE, PERIPHERY AND EVIDENTIALITY

[MARTA BEGONA CARRETERO LAPEYRE]

We are pleased to inform you about the book that we have published
with De Gruyter Mouton:

ENGLISH MODALITY: CORE, PERIPHERY AND EVIDENTIALITY (2013). Topics in
English Linguistics [TiEL] 81. Eds. Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Marta
Carretero, Jorge Arús Hita, Johan van der Auwera.

"The book presents new issues and areas of work in Modality and
Evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other languages. The
volume addresses issues such as the conceptual nature of modality, the
relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the
evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal
expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories
(TAM systems), and the variation in different discourse domains and
genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities." (Quoted from
back cover)

More information at
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/182779

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Core modality
Ronald Langacker - Modals: Striving for control
Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts - Contemporary change in modal usage
in spoken British English: mapping the impact of “genre”
Geoffrey Leech - Where have all the modals gone? An essay on the
declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard
English

Part II: Peripheral modality
Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Nöel and An van Linden - Had better, ’d
better and better: Diachronic and transatlantic variation
Peter Collins - Grammatical colloquialism and the English
quasi-modals: a comparative study
Lucía Loureiro-Porto - Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician
Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit - Modal uses of the English present progressive
Debra Ziegeler - On the generic argument for the modality of will

Part III: Evidentiality and Modality
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen - REALITY and related concepts: towards
a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs
Aurelija Usonienė and Jolanta Šinkūnienė - A cross-linguistic look at
the multifunctionality of the English verb seem
Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla - Annotating English
adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality

Part IV: Evidentiality and Modality in Discourse
Roberta Facchinetti - Modal verbs in news-related blogs: When the blogger counts
Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Begoña Núñez-Perucha - Modality and personal
pronouns as indexical markers of stance: Intersubjective positioning
and construction of public identity in media interviews
Juana I. Marín-Arrese Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq
Inquiry: Blair vs. Brown

Subject index

Best regards,
Marta Carretero


Dr Marta Carretero
https://portal.ucm.es/web/filologia_inglesa_i/marta-carretero