Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In this paper, the use of two modals (can and may) in four varieties of English (British, India, Philippines, and USA) was compared and the characteristics of each variety were statistically analyzed.After all the sample sentences were extracted from each component of the ICE corpus, a total of twenty linguistic factors were encoded.Then, the collected data were statistically analyzed with R. Through the analysis, the following facts were observed: (i) India and Philippine speakers used can more frequently than natives, (ii) Three linguistic factors interacted with CORPUS, and (iii) The distinctions between American and British were more influential than those of the Inner Circle vs. the Outer Circle.
Authors: Yong-Hun Lee, Ki-suk Jun
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2740476876