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Title	Negation and Modality
Original Title	Negation et modalite
Author	Birkelund, Merete
Affiliation	Syddansk U
Source	Cahiers Chronos, 2005, 12, 97-108
ISSN	1384-5357
Descriptors	*Modality (Semantic) (54610); *French (25750); *Legal Language (46300); *Lexical Choice (46642); *Social Functions of Language (79925); *Negation (56700); *Speech Acts (82400); *Tense (88500)
Abstract	The expression of deontic modality is investigated in a corpus of French bilateral contracts to clarify lexical & grammatical choices made by contractants. The frequent use of the present tense & the simple future to express contractual obligations is argued to reflect a distinction between (1) a general rule, obvious in the situational context (present tense), & (2) a firm conviction that the rules of contract law will be respected (future tense). A distinct preference for negated pouvoir 'to be able' instead of affirmative devoir 'must' emphasizes prohibition by blocking an act envisaged by the other party; it is suggested that an obligation expressed by devoir takes effect at the moment of utterance & is therefore less easily controlled than a prohibition encoded by negated pouvoir, which is based on an obvious implicit rule. 31 References. J. Hitchcock
Language	French
Publication Year	2005
Publication Type	Journal Article (aja)
Country of Publication	Netherlands
Classification	4410 semantics; semantics
Update	200506
Accession Number	200506164

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