Modal adverbs of certainty in the rhetoric of Advocates General: a dialogic view

The article deals with EU judicial rhetoric and aims to demonstrate how a selection of modal adverbs of certainty (indeed, clearly, (not) necessarily and of course) are used in the Opinions of the Advocates General at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). To this end, it focuses on the rhetorical fun...

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Main Author: Szczyrbak Magdalena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-06-01
Series:Topics in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/topling-2017-0004