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Relevance and modality

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10498/15242

ISSN: 0214-4808

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Berbeira Gardón, José Luis
Date
1998-01-01
Department
Filología Francesa e Inglesa
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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (1998), vol. 11. Special Issue Devoted to Relevance Theory, pp. 3-22
Abstract
This paper sets out to reasess some relevance-theoretic analyses of the English modals, in particular Walton (1988), Groefsema (1995), Klinge (1993) and Berbeira Gardón (1996a), and show how a unified treatment of modal verbs is possible within the framework of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. Before going through each of these proposals one by one, a summary is offered of the main theoretical assumptions common to all of them. In the last two sections, it is argued that a unified account of the English modals can be given if we assume that they encode that the state of affairs described in the proposition expressed is located in a potential world. This proposal draws heavily on Wilson and Sperber's (1988) account of non-declarative sentences.
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relevance theory; modality; English modal verbs; semantics; pragmatics
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