The Grammar of Fate: How Modality Constructs the Illusion of Personalized Horoscope
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modality, horoscope, process types, vague language, corpus-basedAbstract
This paper investigates the role of modality as a linguistic strategy for expressing vagueness in the daily horoscope, focusing on the distribution of the modal expressions and how process types interacted with the high-certainty modal will to balance specificity and ambiguity. Adopting a corpus-based methodology, the study pursues two objectives: (1) to identify, quantify, and categorize the modal items used in daily horoscopes, and (2) to describe the communicative functions, particularly through the lens of verb-process interactions
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Biber, Douglas, and Randolph Quirk, eds. 2012. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. 10. impression. Harlow: Longman.
Channel, Joanna. 1994. Vague Language. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press
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