ISSN: 2299-4122 • e-ISSN: 2657-4799 • DOI: 10.23817/bzspr • Rejection Rate: 22% (2024)
Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft
Contributions to General and Comparative Linguistics

Zum Gebrauch der Modalverben „sollte“ im fachinternen medizinischen Diskurs / The use of the modal verb form „sollte“ in Medical Specialised Discourse

Bogusława Rolek, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski (ORCID: 0000-0002-2013-4220)

DOI: 10.23817/bzspr.8-9 (published online: 2021-03-05)

pp. 167–188

Keywords: modal verb forms sollte, specialised discourse, medical discourse, argumentation

Modal verbs are characterised by functional flexibility. They are language phenomena that have been in the centre of linguistic attention for years. Yet research on the use of modal verbs in specialised discourse is scarce. The present paper provides the results of the analysis which was devoted to the use of the forms „sollte“ in medical specialised discourse.

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