Query Details
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Question: will and shall in journal writing
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| Author: | M. Shuib | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics |
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| Subject Language(s): |
English
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| Query: |
I am doing a study on the use of modals by journal writers. Among
other things, I found that many of the writers in my data employ the modals will and shall in volitional sense interchangeably . i.e. One of the writers, for example, at the beginning of his article uses volitional will as in : THE ORGANISATION OF THIS PAPER IS AS FOLLOWS. FIRST, WE WILL PROVIDE A GENERAL BACKGROUND TO COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES .... and then, at a later stage of his article, he changes to volitional shall, as in: I SHALL SUGGEST IN THE DISCUSSION OF THE MODEL THAT ... What I would like to know is whether you yourself adopt this approach in your journal or dissertation writing If you do, could you please offer some explanation. Thank you. M. Shuib University of Sheffield M.Shuib@Sheffield.ac.uk |
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| LL Issue: | 7.1769 | |
| Date posted: | 13-Dec-1996 | |
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