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T1 Modelling through Modality: (Re)shaping Brexit
A1 Orrequia-Barea, Aroa
A1 Almazán Ruiz, Encarnación
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB Due to Brexit, the UK has been involved in a continuous political debate between Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition. This paper compares and analyses the modality used in a corpus consisting of their political speeches until Brexit day. Modal verbs are used to express ability, possibility, willingness, certainty, obligation and necessity. Politicians’ choice of certain words can be a useful tool to affect voters’ decisions and modality is a resource which reinforces that influence. The findings show remarkable similarities between both politicians and reveal that possibility is the most frequent meaning of the modal verbs used in the corpus.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/50816
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/50816
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No 42 (2021) pags. 127-153
DS UVaDOC
RD 14-may-2024