RT journal article
T1 Modelling through Modality: (Re)shaping Brexit
T2 Modelar a través de la modalidad: (re)formando el Brexit
A1 Orrequia Barea, Aroa
A1 Almazán-Ruiz, Encarnación
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
K1 Brexit
K1 modal verbs
K1 modality
K1 political discourse
K1 corpus linguistics
AB 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.
PB Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
SN 2531-1646
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26979
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26979
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-nov-2026