Торговець, Юлія Іванівна (2017) Parenthesis as a means of expressing subjective modality in contemporary American social and political essay Studia Philologica (Філологічні студії) : зб. наук. пр. (8). pp. 82-86. ISSN 2311-2425
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Abstract
The article studies of parenthetical elements as means of expressing subjective modality. The research is based on the texts of contemporary American social and political essay. Subjective modality is regarded as the expression of speaker’s attitude towards the utterance. There are numerous kinds of linguistic means to convey subjective modality in English, e.g. phonological (stress and intonation), lexical (words with modal meaning), lexicogrammatical (modal verbs) and grammatical. Parenthetical elements belong to lexical means and remain the least studied of all. They are considered as linguistic units that express emotional state of the speaker, his attitude to the interlocutor and utterance, and convey different modal meanings. The units in question can be expressed by modal words, adverbs, prepositional phrases, infinitive and participial phrases. Among these units modal words appear to be most significant. Special attention is paid to two types of subjective modality, expressed via parenthetical units: epistemic modality of certainty/uncertainty and axiological modality. Epistemic modality is regarded as a speaker’s assumptions of possibilities and indicates the speaker’s confidence (or lack of confidence) in the truth of the proposition. In its turn, epistemic modality is subdivided into the epistemic modality of certainty and the epistemic modality of uncertainty. After a thorough investigation, we’ve come to the conclusion that in the texts of contemporary American social and political essay the epistemic modality of certainty is represented by parenthesis sure / surely, certainly, obviously, assuredly, in fact. The epistemic modality of uncertainty is expressed by: perhaps, maybe, probably, possible, presumably, аррarently. Axiological modality characterizes the utterance through the value system scale of the author in terms of “good” and “bad”
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | subjective modality; epistemic modality; axiological modality; modal words; parenthetical elements; |
| Subjects: | Статті у журналах > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН) |
| Divisions: | Інститути > Інститут філології > Кафедра германської філології |
| Depositing User: | Валерій Смуров |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2017 06:50 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2017 06:50 |
| URI: | https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/19872 |
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