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Martín de la Rosa, María Victoria and Elena Domínguez Romero. 2019. A modality-based approach to the United Nations Security Council’s ambiguous positioning in the resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict. Intercultural Pragmatics 16 (4) : 363–388.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | discourse strategy | modality | security council resolutions | vagueness

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This article explores the role of deontic and epistemic central modality as a discursive strategy to express vagueness in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict.