Appreciative and axiological modalities for argumentation

In this work we set out to analyze the inscription of appreciative and axiological modalities in the argumentative discourse of the written press. Our aim is to take a closer look at the ways in which discursive instances make use of different modal values to encourage readers to act in certain ways. After defining a few notions such as discourse argumentation and modality we proceeded with a meticulous analysis of our corpus focusing on the identification of modalizers with argumentative power. To do this we turned to Laurent Gosselin's modular theory of modality.