Abstract

AbstractPositive discourse analysis attempts to find out one of the syntactic strategies positively used by New York Times in a report entitled “Why the Pope Is Visiting One of the World’s Oldest Christian Communities”, through which the ideology of solidarity is used to reflect unity and strengthen bonds among people, the strategy is Modality. PDA is a method that concentrations on how language is utilized to create positive social identities and make social change. It aims to highlight and analyze discourses that encourage solidarity. The present study is intended to find out the following questions: What the modal verbs used in the present data that reflect solidarity and which of them is the most frequently used? The study aims at finding out the modal verbs that are used positively and the most frequent one in the chosen report. It is hypothesized that will, must and may are used positively. Will is the most frequent one to reflect the willingness. The methodology of the present study is based on Fairclough (1989) and Quirk et al. (1989). It is concluded that will, would and could are used in the chosen data. The modal verb “will” is widely used intentionally to show future intentions and willingness.

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