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Title: Modality in Specialized Texts

Modality in Specialized Texts

Selected Papers of the 1 st CERLIS Conference

by Maurizio Gotti (Volume editor) Marina Dossena (Volume editor)
©2001 Conference proceedings 424 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Linguistic Insights, Volume 1

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
424
Year
2001
ISBN (Softcover)
9783906767109
Language
English
Keywords
overview theoretical background analyses
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien, 2001. 424 pp., num. fig. and tables

Biographical notes

Maurizio Gotti (Volume editor) Marina Dossena (Volume editor)

The Editors: Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Director of the Language Centre and Director of CERLIS, the research centre on specialized languages, at the University of Bergamo. Marina Dossena is an Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bergamo (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures).

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