LEXICAL MODAL MEANING IN GRAMMAR CONSTRUCTION
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2020
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International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Vol.24, Issue 02
Abstract
Lexical Modal pertain to the speaker's attitude towards events which is based on social rules. The
social rules can be personal authority (due to age, position, social status) or authority official (mutually agreed
provisions or regulations to regulate) the life of the community group concerned). Lexical modal express will, desire
or intention speaker so that an action is carried out by the interlocutor or the perpetrator. With words another
speaker is authorized to use his authority to the opponent talk because it is his responsibility. By using descriptive
method, this research describes the lexical modal in English modality The data was taken from corpus linguistics,
that is Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
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Lexical Modal, Corpus Linguistics, Syntactic, Semantic