Publications

Publication details [#56318]

Rocci, Andrea. 2012. Modality and argumentative discourse relations: A study of the Italian necessity modal dovere. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (15) : 2121–2149.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | causality | evidential utterance | modality | necessity

Language as a subject

Italian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on data from a journalistic corpus, this paper presents a context-dependent relational study of two constructions of the Italian necessity modal dovere (‘must’) linked to an epistemic interpretation.