RT Journal Article
T1 A modality-based approach to the United Nations Security Council’s ambiguous positioning in the resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict
A1 Martín De La Rosa, Victoria
A1 Domínguez Romero, Elena
AB This paper examines the role of deontic and epistemic central modality as a discursive strategy to express vagueness in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict. The paper follows a corpus-based methodology with a two-fold objective: (i) identification, quantification and analysis of the central modal verbs retrieved from the resolutions, and (ii) the description of the communicative functions performed by these verbs. Our ultimate aim is to reveal the use of deliberate flexible language leading to ambiguous positioning towards the Syrian armed conflict in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions which have been issued since 2012. The consequences associated with the institutional use of flexible language and ambiguous positioning in the resolutions under study will also be accounted for.
PB De Gruyter Mouton
SN 1612-295X
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96197
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96197
LA eng
NO Martín de la Rosa, V., & Domínguez Romero E. (2019). A modality-based approach to the United Nations Security Council’s ambiguous positioning in the resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict. Intercultural Pragmatics, 16(4), 363-387.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025