"These forecasts may be substantially different from actual results." The use of epistemic modal markers in English and German original letters to shareholders and in English-German transla

Letters to shareholders (i. e. the first part of a company's Annual Report) represent an interesting genre for the analysis of epistemic modal expressions. They serve the function to present a short overview of the company's main achievements as well as an outlook into the future. They ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Svenja Kranich, Andrea Bicsár
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2012-05-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/7970