@misc{10498/26979,
year = {2021},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26979},
abstract = {Due to Brexit, the UK has been involved in a continuous political debate between Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition. This paper compares and analyses the modality used in a corpus consisting of their political speeches until Brexit day. Modal verbs are used to express ability, possibility, willingness, certainty, obligation and necessity. Politicians’ choice of certain words can be a useful tool to affect voters’ decisions and modality is a resource which reinforces that influence. The findings show remarkable similarities between both politicians and reveal that possibility is the most frequent meaning of the modal verbs used in the corpus.},
publisher = {Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid},
keywords = {Brexit},
keywords = {modal verbs},
keywords = {modality},
keywords = {political discourse},
keywords = {corpus linguistics},
title = {Modelling through Modality: (Re)shaping Brexit},
doi = {10.24197/ersjes.42.2021.127-153},
author = {Orrequia Barea, Aroa and Almazán-Ruiz, Encarnación},
}