TY - BOOK AU - Maurizio Gotti AU - Marina Dossena PY - 2021 CY - Lausanne, Switzerland PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1424-8689 TI - Modality in Specialized Texts T2 - Selected Papers of the 1 st CERLIS Conference UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1092930 N2 - This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Bergamo (5-6 May 2000), which focussed on the semantic and pragmatic values of modality in specialized texts – legal, economic, academic and medical. The assembled contributions give an overview of the range of scholarly approaches to modality. They convey the theoretical background and provide in-depth analyses of specialized texts on a synchronic as well as on a diachronic level. KW - overview, theoretical background, analyses LA - English ER -