Bài viết này cố gắng nghiên cứu xa hơn về biểu hiện phương thức và động từ tình thái bằng cách tập trung vào phân tích các phát ngôn tình thái và động từ trạng thái sử dụng trong các văn bản kinh tế được lựa chọn. Bài viết này dựa trên nghiên cứu 15 bài báo kinh tế tiếng Anh.
We may conduct further tests to clarify the effects of time on the perception of a conflict of interest The above corpus examples then present two basic differences between active may and active can in mental process Firstly, may, but not can, occurs more frequently with untypical animacy; whereas may expresses primarily uncertainty and secondarily legitimacy, can expresses primarily legitimacy and secondarily ability The numbers are too small to warrant extrapolation, but it would be interesting to see if these results are confirmed in a larger sample CONCLUSION In conclusion, the study presents some observations concerning transitivity and modality in economic research articles It can be concluded that there is a series of relationships between processes (transitivity) and modality These are manifested in the form of tendencies, in some cases particularly strong, for particular processes to have strong collocations with specific forms of modal choice in economic writing Transitivity is then a significant parameter in the analysis of modality in economic research articles Because of the scope of a seminar topic, the study is only an extrapolative result found for transitivity and modality in a small numbers of the sample It would be interesting to see whether the tendencies found here are corroborated in a larger sample Also, further research on the other categories of transitivity and modality would be useful./ References: Berry, M (1975), Introduction to Systemic Linguistics, Structures and Systems, U.K: Batsford Coats, J (1983), The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries London and Canberra: Croom Helm Halliday, M.A.K (1970), Functional diversity in NGHIÊN CỨU - TRAO ĐỔI v language as seen from a consideration of modality and mood in English Foundations of Language, 6, 322-361 Halliday, M.A.K (1985), An Introduction to Functional Grammar U.K.: Edward Arnold Huddleston, R.D Palmer, F (1974), The English Verb U.K.: Longman Palmer, F (1986), Mood and Modality Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 10 Palmer, F (1990), Modality and the English Modals Longman, London and New York Huddleston, R.D (1971), The Sentence in Written English, a Syntactic Study Based on an Analysis of Scientific Texts, U.K.: Cambridge University Press 11 Quirk, R et al (1972a), A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language London and New York: Longman Lyons, J (1977), Semantics Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 12 Quirk, R et al (1972b), A Grammar of Contemporary English London and New York: Lonman McCloskey, D.N 1985, The Rhetoric of Economics Harvester Press 13 Von Wright, G.H (1951), An Essay in Modal Logic Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company TRANSITIVITY AND MODALITY IN ENGLISH ECONOMIC RESEARCH ARTICLES PHAM THI THANH THUY Abstract: In the linguistics literature, modality is a semantic term concerning the speaker’s attitude toward what is being said Meanwhile, transitivity is the number of objects a verb requires or takes in a given instance Much of the attracted attention has been on theoretical nature, and intuitive and de-contextualized examples The paper, therefore, helps situate the concept within wider strategies for modifying illocutionary force basing on an analysis of authentic sources from economic research articles Accordingly, the study attempts to further advance research on modal expressions and transitivity by focusing on analyzing modal verbs and transitivity used in selected economic texts The study is based on a corpus of 15 economic research articles drawn from English economic field The corpus contains the whole of the text of the articles, excluding the abstract since the language of an abstract is a register in itself, so it is not like an academic article Keywords: economic research articles, modal verb, transitivity, modality Ngày nhận: 18/7/2016 Ngày phản biện: 02/9/2016 Ngày duyệt đăng: 20/9/2016 KHOA HỌC NGOẠI NGỮ QUÂN SỰ Số - 9/2016 69 ... North-Holland Publishing Company TRANSITIVITY AND MODALITY IN ENGLISH ECONOMIC RESEARCH ARTICLES PHAM THI THANH THUY Abstract: In the linguistics literature, modality is a semantic term concerning the speaker’s