Modal structures of political commitment

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Critical Discourse Analysis, language: English, abstract: According to Downing and Locke “[m]odality is the category by which speakers express attitudes towards the event contained in the proposition” (Downin...