Abstract This paper examines the role of deontic and epistemic central modality as a discursive strategy to express vagueness in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict. The paper follows a corpus-based methodology with a two-fold objective: (i) identification, quantification and analysis of the central modal verbs retrieved from the resolutions, and (ii) the description of the communicative functions performed by these verbs. Our ultimate aim is to reveal the use of deliberate flexible language leading to ambiguous positioning towards the Syrian armed conflict in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions which have been issued since 2012. The consequences associated with the institutional use of flexible language and ambiguous positioning in the resolutions under study will also be accounted for.

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联合国安全理事会在关于叙利亚武装冲突的决议中模棱两可的立场时采取了一种基于方式的方法

摘要本文探讨了道义和认知的中心方式作为在联合国安理会关于叙利亚武装冲突的决议中表达模糊性的话语策略的作用。本文遵循基于语料库的方法，具有两个目标：（i）对从决议中检索出的中央情态动词进行识别，量化和分析，以及（ii）对这些动词执行的交际功能的描述。我们的最终目标是在2012年以来发布的联合国安理会决议中揭示使用故意使用的灵活语言导致对叙利亚武装冲突的模棱两可的定位。研究中的决议也将被考虑在内。