{"title":"Investigating Modality in Policy Texts: Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Modals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development","authors":"I. Hassan","doi":"10.21608/ttaip.2022.277139","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The primary goal of this research is to investigate the role of modal resources in policy discourse. To this end, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, issued by the United Nations member states in 2015 representing a global comprehensive plan for the transformation of the world, is critically analyzed with a particular focus on examining the frequency and strategic functions of modal verbs in conveying certain interpersonal meanings that contribute to the influential delivery of messages in the Agenda. The corpus of the study comprises the full transcript of the 2030 Agenda; a corpus-assisted critical discourse approach was adopted for data analysis. The theoretical framework relies upon Fairclough’s dialectical-relational approach (2015) in combination with the corpus linguistics tool AntConc","PeriodicalId":276703,"journal":{"name":"Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21608/ttaip.2022.277139","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The primary goal of this research is to investigate the role of modal resources in policy discourse. To this end, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, issued by the United Nations member states in 2015 representing a global comprehensive plan for the transformation of the world, is critically analyzed with a particular focus on examining the frequency and strategic functions of modal verbs in conveying certain interpersonal meanings that contribute to the influential delivery of messages in the Agenda. The corpus of the study comprises the full transcript of the 2030 Agenda; a corpus-assisted critical discourse approach was adopted for data analysis. The theoretical framework relies upon Fairclough’s dialectical-relational approach (2015) in combination with the corpus linguistics tool AntConc
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