Epistemic Modality in Linguistic and Literature Essays in English : A comparative corpus-based study of modal verbs in student claims

This study is a corpus-based comparison between student essays written in the subject areas of English linguistics and literature at undergraduate level. They are 200 Bachelor degree theses submitted at a variety of university departments (such as English, Language and Literature, Humanities, Social and Intercultural Studies) in Sweden. The comparison concerns frequencies of core modal verbs and how often they occur together with the I, we and it subject pronouns and in the structures this/the [essay, study, project, thesis] when students attempt to communicate their personal claims. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the essays show few similarities in the ways that core modal verbs appear in both disciplines. The results indicate mainly distinct differences, especially in relation to clusters and variation of performative verbs. Specific patterns in the ways that students use core modal verbs as hedges have also been identified.

LMS software study and a practical application in language and literature didactics. 'Aplicación práctica en Didáctica de la lengua y la literatura del software LMS'.

Resumen en español

Towards an interface of language and literature. 'Hacia una interfaz de la Lengua y la Literatura'.

Se analiza la conveniencia de usar textos simplificados o en su formato original para propositos pedagógicos dentro de la enseñanza de la segunda lengua. El autor considera que ambas clases de textos (simplificados u originales) pueden formar el nivel intermedio de aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras.

Language and literature in society : a sociological essay on theory and method in the interpretation of linguistic symbols : with a bibliographical guide to the sociology of literature.

Bibliography: p. [141]-214.

A sequel to the Common school grammar; containing, in addition to other materials and illustrations, notes and critical remarks on the philosophy of the English language; and explaining some of its most difficult idiomatic phrases. Designed for the use of the first class in common schools.

Mode of access: Internet.

Practical studies in grammar : dealing with the principles of English language and composition /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sophomore English; composition and literature

On cover: The agricultural and mechanical college of Texas.

A critical history of the language and literature of antient Greece /

Mode of access: Internet.

Illinois studies in language and literature.

Vol.1, v.16, no.3-v.23, no.2. issued as University of Illinois bulletin.

Germania : a fortnightly journal for the study of the German language and literature.

Ceased with June? 1901. Cf. Arndt.

A manual of the philosophy of voice and speech, especially in relation to the English language and the art of public speaking /

Mode of access: Internet.

The language and literature of the Scottish Highlands,

Mode of access: Internet.