This chapter reports some results of an ongoing study of the modal auxiliaries in prediction, based on a corpus of financial and business news articles from The Economist. predictions were found to be of varying degrees of specificity, determining different patterns of modal usage, and to serve different textual and pragmatic functions.
walsh (2004). Investigating prediction in financial and business news articles. FRANFURT AM MAIN : Peter Lang.
Investigating prediction in financial and business news articles
WALSH, PHILIPPA
2004
Abstract
This chapter reports some results of an ongoing study of the modal auxiliaries in prediction, based on a corpus of financial and business news articles from The Economist. predictions were found to be of varying degrees of specificity, determining different patterns of modal usage, and to serve different textual and pragmatic functions.File in questo prodotto:
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