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Modality Shifts

Modality Shifts is a translation variation phenomenon denoting the systematic alteration of modal expressions—such as necessity, possibility, or obligation—across source and target texts, distinguished by changes in linguistic forms that convey speaker attitude or evidentiality within interlingual transfer.

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Publications

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On the Rise of Epistemic Meanings in English: An Example of Subjectification in Semantic Change

Elizabeth Closs Traugott · Language · 1989 · 1.8K citations

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A text-type and move analysis study of verb tense and modality distribution in medical English abstracts

Françoise Salager‐Meyer · English for Specific Purposes · 1992 · 249 citations · Full text

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Modality, mood, and change of modal meanings: A new perspective

Heiko Narrog · Cognitive Linguistics · 2005 · 199 citations

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When Online Meets Offline: The Effect of Modality Switching on Relational Communication

Artemio Ramirez, Shuangyue Zhang · Communication Monographs · 2007 · 172 citations

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Modal choice and modal change: the journey to work in Britain since 1890

Colin G. Pooley, Jean Turnbull · Journal of Transport Geography · 2000 · 100 citations

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Authors

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  1. JS
    Jeffrey S. Bowers

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 172 citations

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  2. HN
    Heiko Narrog

    Tohoku University, Japan

    3 publications · 345 citations

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  3. EC
    Elizabeth Closs Traugott

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 1.8K citations

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  4. AR
    Artemio Ramirez

    University of South Florida, United States

    2 publications · 187 citations

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    Hideyoshi YANAGISAWA

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

    1 publications · 12 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Shanghai Jiao Tong University

    Shanghai, China

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    41 citations

  2. Tohoku University

    Sendai, Japan

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    146 citations

  3. Rice University

    Houston, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    108 citations

  4. University of Tübingen

    Tübingen, Germany

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    188 citations

  5. OSRAM (United States)

    Wilmington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    172 citations

  6. West Virginia University

    Morgantown, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  7. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    6 publications

    162 citations

  8. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    88 citations

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  2. Frontiers in Psychology

    3 publications · 72 citations

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  3. Lingua

    2 publications · 44 citations

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  4. Transport Policy

    2 publications · 77 citations

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  5. Journal of English Linguistics

    2 publications · 85 citations

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