Deontic modality in tourism scientific writing
Keywords:
modality, deontic modality, tourism, research article, genreAbstract
This article focuses on deontic modal verbs found in a corpus of tourism research papers. The originality of this study lies mainly in the selection of two fundamental sections of the research article for its reception and impact as a scientific contribution, namely the introduction and the conclusion. As already expressed in Álvarez-Gil and Domínguez-Morales (2018) and Álvarez-Gil (in press), the research article in tourism is by far one of the least explored. The methodology involves the use of corpus linguistics tools. Since context is central to the identification of modal meanings, part of the analysis of the texts also requires manual analyses. The findings of this study suggest that there is certainly variation not only in terms of the forms used in each of the introductions and conclusions, but also in terms of senses identified. Deontic modality in the corpus analysed is attested to express prediction, organisation of the contents in the article, as well as to express authority. Another evident meaning of the deontic modals is to indicate advice which is beneficial for the tourist industry.
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