Objectives
BNCweb will be
specifically applied through chosen modal verbs in order to:
1. shed some light on modal verbs of which meanings are difficult to make distinction on theoretical background.
1. shed some light on modal verbs of which meanings are difficult to make distinction on theoretical background.
2. affirm that
modalities can be interchangeable due to different contexts, such as gender,
type of data, perceived level of difficulty and etc.
Method
Three modal verbs ("should",
"have to" and "must") will be scrutinized by available
functions ("distribution", "collocation" and
"concordance") via BNCweb in order to offer empirical information,
such as grammatical usage and discursive practice, of modalities in British
context. Details of methodology in each function will be subsequently explained
in results and discussion section.
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