Almazán-Ruiz, EncarnaciónOrrequia-Barea, Aroa2025-01-252025-01-252021-11-09Orrequia-Barea, A., & Almazán Ruiz, E. (2021). Modelling through Modality: (Re)shaping Brexit ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies, (42), 127–153.2531-1654https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.42.2021.127-153https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/5620https://hdl.handle.net/10953/4378Due to Brexit, the UK has been involved in a continuous political debate between Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition. This paper compares and analyses the modality used in a corpus consisting of their political speeches until Brexit day. Modal verbs are used to express ability, possibility, willingness, certainty, obligation and necessity. Politicians’ choice of certain words can be a useful tool to affect voters’ decisions and modality is a resource which reinforces that influence. The findings show remarkable similarities between both politicians and reveal that possibility is the most frequent meaning of the modal verbs used in the corpus.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/BrexitModal verbsModalityPolitical discourseCorpus linguisticsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess