tailieunhanh - Epistemic modality in ted talks on education

This paper aims to investigate the epistemic markers in TED talks. The data for the study is 100 TED talks on education. The mixed method of both the quantitative and qualitative approaches was manipulated to capture the use of the linguistic means to convey epistemic modality in terms of degrees of certainty and range of devices. The findings indicate that epistemic modality is pervasive in this genre, with approximately one-tenth of the sentences in the data being epistemically modalized by TED speakers via a range of linguistic means of different types and epistemic strength. The analysis unveils a clear tendency to select the middle level of commitment and make use of epistemic modal auxiliaries to frame their statements with personal attitudes and opinions. The examination of epistemic devices in the data also suggests speakers’ preference to use epistemic adverbials to realize certainty and employ epistemic modals to denote probability and possibility. The study yields pedagogical implications for developing an efficient use of epistemic modality in oral presentation of academic discourse. | EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN TED TALKS ON EDUCATION Ton Nu My Nhat Nguyen Thi Dieu Minh Department of Foreign Languages Quy Nhon University 170 An Duong Vuong Quy Nhon Binh Dinh Vietnam Received 7 December 2019 Revised 20May 2019 Accepted 26 July 2019 Abstract This paper aims to investigate the epistemic markers in TED talks. The data for the study is 100 TED talks on education. The mixed method of both the quantitative and qualitative approaches was manipulated to capture the use of the linguistic means to convey epistemic modality in terms of degrees of certainty and range of devices. The findings indicate that epistemic modality is pervasive in this genre with approximately one-tenth of the sentences in the data being epistemically modalized by TED speakers via a range of linguistic means of different types and epistemic strength. The analysis unveils a clear tendency to select the middle level of commitment and make use of epistemic modal auxiliaries to frame their statements with personal attitudes and opinions. The examination of epistemic devices in the data also suggests speakers preference to use epistemic adverbials to realize certainty and employ epistemic modals to denote probability and possibility. The study yields pedagogical implications for developing an efficient use of epistemic modality in oral presentation of academic discourse. Keywords TED talks epistemic modality modality 1. Introduction. In today s modern society along with technological advances there is a plethora of easily accessible English language learning materials for education practitioners as well as those striving to learn English. Utilizing numerous media-based resources to accompany formal instructions has become an emerging trend in English language teaching and learning. Among a proliferation of resources available for educational purposes the TED community represents one form of online information sharing that can be used as both main and supplementary accompaniment to English .

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• Epistemic modality
• Ted talks on education
• Investigate the epistemic markers
• 100 TED talks on education
• TED speakers via a range
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• Dynamic modality
• Research articles
• Non indexed journals
• English modality’s realizations
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• Australian writer
• Colleen McCullough
• Criteria system
• New Phylogenies
• Absolute Goodness
• environmental crisis
• conventional interpretations