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Título: A contrastive analysis of epistemic modality in scientific English
Autores/as: Carrió Pastor, María Luisa
Clasificación UNESCO: 570107 Lengua y literatura
550510 Filología
Fecha de publicación: 2012
Publicación seriada: LFE. Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 
Resumen: This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect the most outstanding cognitive implications of this fact. The corpus used in this research contains 50 research papers written by native English speakers and 50 scientific papers written by Spanish researchers who use English to communicate internationally. As epistemic modals are used to indicate the possibility of some piece of knowledge, this paper focuses on epistemic modal verbs in order to detect if native speakers of English and non-native speakers of English communicate modality in the same way, or if there are differences in frequency and use. The results obtained in this analysis indicated that there are differences in the frequency of use of epistemic expressions, even if the intention of the writers is the same.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/11202
ISSN: 1133-1127
Fuente: LFE. Revista de lenguas para fines específicos. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1993-.-- ISSN 1133-1127.-- n. 18, 2012, p. 115
Colección:LFE, Rev. leng. fines específ. n.18, 2012 
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