Some Observations on Can, Want and Have to in Politicians’ Public Speech Cover Image

Някои наблюдения върху „мога“, „искам“ и „трябва“ в публичната реч на политиците
Some Observations on Can, Want and Have to in Politicians’ Public Speech

Author(s): Petya Osenova, Nadya Terziyska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Politics and communication, Stylistics
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: politics; communication; modal verbs; interview; speech

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the usages of three modal verbs in present tense: can, want and have to in two registers of the public politicians’ speech: interviews and parliament speech. The behavior of these verbs is considered within two aspects: the frequency of present verb wordforms in both registers and their collocations in the right context.

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 6-17
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian