Epistemic modality devices are believed to be one of the prominent characteristics of research articles as the commonly used genre among the academic community members. Considering the importance of such devices in producing and comprehending scientific discourse, this study aimed to cross–culturally and cross-linguistically investigate epistemic modality markers as an important subcategory...

Academic discourse has always been the focus of many linguists, especially those who have been involved with English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and discourse analysis. Persuasion, as part of rhetorical structure of academic writing, is partly achieved by employing modality markers.  Adopting a descriptive design, the present study was carried out to compare the use of modality markers in terms...

modal verbs and their different meanings can be investigated on the basis of various theoretical frameworks. in this paper, persian modal verbs are examined and analyzed in terms of degrees and kinds of modality proposed by palmer (1990). our analysis shows that although bǎyad ‘must’ does not entail the proposition, it is used to express three degrees of epistemic modality, two degrees of dynam...

1 Epistemic Possibility and Other Types of Possibility There is a lot that we don’t know. That means that there are a lot of possibilities that are, epistemically speaking, open. For instance, we don’t know whether it rained in Seattle yesterday. So, for us at least, there is an epistemic possibility where it rained in Seattle yesterday, and one where it did not. It’s tempting to give a very si...

Bilgisel kiplik bir ifadede sunulan bilgiye ilişkin yazarın özgüven düzeyini yansıtır. Yazarın sözcük seçimlerinin bilginin artarımında önemli rol oynadığı bilimsel araştırmalar, pekiştirici veya önermenin kesinliğini azaltan ifadeler olarak belirticilerinin dikkatle seçimini gerektirir. Bu bağlamda, mevcut çalışma Türk araştırmacıların doktora tezleri, yüksek lisans tezleri ve araştırma makale...

Epistemic modality serves to indicate how confident language users are about the truth of the ideational material they convey; it is often subdivided into two types of markers, hedges and boosters. Hedges are linguistic devices like perhaps, I guess, and to a certain extent that speakers employ to reduce the degree of liability or responsibility they might face in expressing the ideational mate...