Definition
Judgment modality is an epistemic modality that connotes the speaker's
- strength of inference, or
- degree of confidence
in the reality of the proposition expressed by his or her utterance.
Examples
(English)
Here are some examples of words that express different kinds of judgment modality:
- may signals speculative inference
- must signals deductive strength of inference
Kinds
More specific concepts within judgment modality.
Sources 1
- Palmer 1986, 53, 57–58, 64