Authority is conveyed through deontic and anankastic utterances in legal texts. The former qualify a given behaviour as obligatory, permitted, forbidden or facultative; the latter make a necessary precondition for an action, a state of affairs or an object. This paper analyses the semantic and pragmatic values of the linguistic markers expressing obligation and anankastic necessity in a range of Italian texts: the Constitution of the Italian Republic, codes, decrees, statutes and regulations. The data are extracted from an electronic corpus (CD-ROM Zanichelli “4 codici e 350 leggi complementari”, 2001/1) and a small corpus built ad hoc. The investigation shows how the choice and use of modal markers constitute one of the textual features characterising the genres examined.
Pierini, P. (2002). Modalità deontica e anankastica nel testo normativo italiano. STUDI ITALIANI DI LINGUISTICA TEORICA E APPLICATA, XXXI(1), 115-132.
Modalità deontica e anankastica nel testo normativo italiano
PIERINI, Patrizia
2002-01-01
Abstract
Authority is conveyed through deontic and anankastic utterances in legal texts. The former qualify a given behaviour as obligatory, permitted, forbidden or facultative; the latter make a necessary precondition for an action, a state of affairs or an object. This paper analyses the semantic and pragmatic values of the linguistic markers expressing obligation and anankastic necessity in a range of Italian texts: the Constitution of the Italian Republic, codes, decrees, statutes and regulations. The data are extracted from an electronic corpus (CD-ROM Zanichelli “4 codici e 350 leggi complementari”, 2001/1) and a small corpus built ad hoc. The investigation shows how the choice and use of modal markers constitute one of the textual features characterising the genres examined.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
