The essence of modality as a category of linguistic meaning, its objective and subjective types. The concept of Sh. Ballie for modality in the West-European linguistics. Modal values having different means of expression according to the A.V. Bondarko.
Минобрнауки РФ ФГБОУ ВПО «Челябинский государственный университет» Факультет лингвистики и перевода Кафедра теории и практики английского языка Report Means of expressing modality in the english language Челябинск 2013 Modality - is a multifold phenomenon, and therefore in the linguistic literature we can find different thoughts concerning the essence of this phenomenon. Modality (from Latin modus - measure, method, shape) in different object domains is a category which characterizes modus operandi or an attitude toward the action. Human thinking is a result of the world perception and it is closely connected with language - the primary means of its expression. The category of modality is the category of language, so it presents in itself the judgment concerning the reality or the statement related to the phenomena of the reality. In general, modality can be defined as the speaker’s attitude to the content of his statement and the relation of the content of the statement to the reality. In other words, modality is a category of linguistic meaning having to do with the expression of possibility and necessity. It is a grammatical-semantic category, which expresses the speaker’s attitude towards the expression, his evaluation of the attitude contributed towards objective reality. Traditionally, modality is divided into two types: objective modality and subjective modality. This approach was based on the works of Russian scholar V. Z. Panfilov. In this case, objective modality is an attitude of the expression towards reality (reality or unreality, possibility or impossibility, necessity or probability etc.) and subjective modality is the expression of speaker’s attitude towards the utterance.
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