TY  - BOOK
AU  - Minako Nakayasu
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Pragmatics of Modals in Shakespeare
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1107260
N2  - Modals and related phenomena are without doubt one of the most complicated issues in the grammar of language. This study provides a reappraisal of the modals in Shakespeare’s language from the pragmatic viewpoint, both micropragmatic and macropragmatic. The material selected for analysis are modals SHALL, SHOULD, WILL, WOULD, and their contracted forms. Micropragmatic aspects such as speech acts seem relatively easily accessible to historical researchers; however, this study moves further into the macropragmatic dimensions of language use than the earlier ones and covers politeness, dialogue, and discourse analysis.
KW  - Early Modern English, Macropragmatic Analysis of Modals, Theoretical and methodological preliminaries
LA  - English
ER  -