Passive voice is frequently used in English language, and generally speaking, the subject is acted upon by the verb, and the actor must be someone or something else in passive voice sentences. However, what requires n...
This paper starts from other scholars' studies of multimodality and multimodal discourse and discusses PPT--PowerPoint, as a pragmatic and effective means in teaching English to non-English major students. By using m...
This study entails a first approach to epistemic modality in Woolf's essays. In particular, we will distinguish between assertive and non-assertive epistemic modality. Woolf uses assertive epistemic modality when tra...
Language plays an important role in interpersonal communication, among which the importance of formulaic language shall never be under-estimated. Reflected in not only the language of individual language users but als...
Modality as a major exponent of interpersonal relations has been extensively studied. It is mostly studied in a highly individual centered view that individual speakers and their relations to one another are central, ...