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Publication details [#5896]

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1972. The pragmatics of modality. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 8 : 229–246.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

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Annotation

L.'s main point is that the choice of modals (both root modals and epistemic modals) can be partly explained in terms of pragmatic considerations.

Reviewed by

Verschueren, Jef. 1977. The pragmatics of modality revisited by a Dutch uncle. In Putseys, Yvan, ed. Aspects of English and Netherlandic grammar. Acco. pp. 87–98.