Ocorrência e interpretação dos modais poder e dever em português jurídico

• Authors: Coelho Ramos Joaquim

Title variants

EN

Occurrence and interpretation of modal verbs poder and dever in Portuguese legal language

• Languages of publication: PT

Abstracts

EN

In this article, we will try to reflect on how modal verbs poder and dever behave when used in juridical texts. We will focus specifically on its frequency in epistemic, deontic or diffuse usage, as well as on the relevance of context to decode and properly interpret the meaning of these verbs in a given sentence.

Keywords

EN

modality; juridical language; auxiliary verbs; dever; poder

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Studia Iberystyczne
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 317-327

Contributors

author

Coelho Ramos Joaquim

• Univerzita Karlova v Praze

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/SI.13.2014.13.25