Epistemic and Deontic Modalities in English and Arabic:A Contrastive Study

Abstract

    Modality is the category of meaning used to talk about possibilities and

necessities, essentially, states of affairs beyond the actual.

The present study aims at:

1-Describing epistemic and deontic modality in both languages, i.e. standard English and standard Arabic to identify the point  similarities and differences between them in relation to this respect.

2-Helping foreign learners of modern standard Arabic to obtain some knowledge of the models of expressing modality in Arabic.

3-facilitating the task of the students of English –Arabic translation insofar as modality concerned .

The analysis of the study has revealed the following point