Wilt Thou Be Lord of all the World? Modals and Persuasion in Shakespeare
| Autor: | Nakayasu Minako |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Vol 49, Iss 1, Pp 5-30 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0081-6272 2082-5102 |
| DOI: | 10.2478/stap-2014-0001 |
| Popis: | Persuasion is defined as human communication designed to influence the judgements and actions of others (Simons & Jones 2011). The purpose of this research is to analyse the discourse of persuasion in Shakespeare from the perspective of historical pragmatics (Jucker & Taavitsainen 2010), with particular attention to modals employed as part of the strategies. The modals under investigation are proximal and distal central modals, SHALL/SHOULD, WILL/WOULD, CAN/COULD, MAY/MIGHT, MUST, and the contracted form ’LL. The data for the present study is drawn from The Riverside Shakespeare (Evans 1997) and the concordance by Spevack (1968-1980). The corpus includes both cases where the persuasion attempt is successful and unsuccessful. |
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