🎈Week 6🎈
MODAL AUXILIARY IN BRITISH ENGLISH:A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF MODALITY THROUGH BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS
written by Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha
This paper present about Modality, BNCweb and Corpus Linguistics.
BNCweb
provides means of corpus linguistic analysis. Is a useful device to explore practical usage in English Language. Beside common grammatical knowledge
Objectives
BNCweb will e 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.
2. affirm that modalities can be interchangeable due to different contexts, such as gender, type of data, perceived level of difficulty and etc.
Methods
Three modal verbs (should, have to,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.
Modal verbs "must","have to","should" have been explained in theoretical usage in many textbooks and sometimes each one has been unforeseen patterns that co-occur with each modal verb and this will assist, at least, English teachers to give realistic examples to students from the top list of collocates.
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