Necessity, Norm and Missing Knowledge: What Modals Tell Us About Crisis Response in German COVID-19 Reporting.

Z Literaturwissenschaft Linguist · 2021 · PMC8340594 · PMID 38624894

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In the case of the frequent modal sollen the distance between the frequency in corpus and reference corpus is lower, but still highly significant (rank 1634, LLR 56.77).

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