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标题：An Investigation of Epistemic Modality in Literary Texts
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作者：Nader Assadi Aidinlou ; Sholeh Mohammadpour
期刊名称：International Journal of Social Sciences and Education
印刷版ISSN：2227-393X
电子版ISSN：2223-4934
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：4
出版社：Federal College of Education
摘要：Language is employed for not only conveying factual information but also expressing one's attitudes and opinions about the truth of the proposition contained in an utterance. Here the authors has made their attempts to realize how epistemic modality, which indicates addressese's (non)-commitment to the truth of the proposition, is textualized in literary works. The results from the data analysis indicates that modality is lexico-grammaticalized in literary narratives in a variety of modes of which the epistemic modals are of high frequency. Furthermore, these modals construe four types of ideology; that is to say, possibility, probability, inference and belief, in, from among which the epistemic possibility is utilized with high frequency
关键词：Epistemic Modality; Literary Texts; Textualization; Interpersonal Function