A Corpus Study of Brexit Political Discourse: Exploring Modality through Lexical Modals

Encarnación Almazán Ruiz; Aroa Orrequia-Barea

doi:10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20249837

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Encarnación Almazán Ruiz Universidad de Jaén https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8724-6596
Aroa Orrequia-Barea Universidad de Cádiz https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1478-7847

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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20249837

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modalidad, modales léxicos, estudios del discurso asistido por corpus, discurso político, Brexit

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El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los modales léxicos utilizados en los discursos políticos de Boris Johnson y Jeremy Corbyn durante los últimos meses del proceso del Brexit. Este estudio se centra en investigar si la elección léxica muestra el compromiso de los políticos con sus votantes, determinando qué modales léxicos utiliza cada político y qué implicación o implicaciones semánticas transmiten. El estudio es descriptivo e interpretativo y se ha realizado mediante la metodología del análisis del discurso asistido por corpus. Este artículo, al examinar otras clases de palabras diferentes a los verbos modales, contribuye a la investigación sobre la modalidad en la lengua inglesa. Como muestra el análisis del corpus, los políticos emplean los modales léxicos como un recurso destacado para presentar los hechos a la audiencia.

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Aroa Orrequia-Barea, Universidad de Cádiz

Dr Encarnación Almazán-Ruiz got her PhD in English Linguistics at the University of Granada. She currently works as an assistant professor at the University of Jaén, teaching in both Graduate and Postgraduate programs. Her research interests include Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Digital Linguistics and implementing innovative teaching approaches in the EFL classroom. Dr Almazán-Ruiz has published several papers in the field, with a particular focus on analysing political discourse and researching the effectiveness of the Flipped classroom approach for teaching English grammar.

Dr Aroa Orrequia-Barea is a lecturer at the University of Cádiz, where she obtained her PhD in English Philology. Her research interests include Corpus Linguistics, which she applies to various topics such as Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics, and Sentiment Analysis. She is currently working on a critical discourse analysis of trendy media topics, specifically political speeches. Dr Orrequia-Barea has authored several publications that focus on analysing political speeches, particularly those related to the Brexit process.

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Un estudio de corpus sobre el discurso político del Brexit: la modalidad a través de los modales léxicos

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