MODAL-EXPRESSIVE RESOURCE OF THE SENTENCE: THE MEANING OF “OSCILLATION” AND THE LANGUAGE MEANS OF ITS ACTUALIZATION
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7278-2022-2-39-47
Abstract
Aim. We analyze the modus meaning of “oscillation” as one of the ways of modalization and expressivization of what is communicated by the subject. Systematic description and hierarchization of linguistic qualificative means of representation of the meaning of “oscillation” in the semantic structure of the sentence is presented.
Methodology. The theoretical material and the corpus of examples are studied using functional-communicative, descriptive and comparative methods, which makes it possible to systematically analyze the modal-expressive resource of the Russian sentence in the aspect of representation by linguistic means of the modus meaning of “oscillation”.
Results. The paper analyzes the subjective author’s meaning of “oscillation” as one of the ways of modalization and expressivization of what is reported in the sentence. The status of this meaning in the semantic structure of the sentence is qualified, and its role in the development of the speech situation of oscillation is determined. The nuclear and peripheral linguistic means of actualization of oscillation as a reflector of the author’s opinion, as well as the point of view represented in the sentence are systematized. The factors causing the speaker’s hesitation are established.
Research implications. Theoretical and practical data on the stated topic are integrated. One of the vectors of the development of the modal-expressive resource of the sentence is described on the basis of the functional systematization of nuclear, near-nuclear and peripheral linguistic means of representation of oscillation as a modus meaning reflecting the author’s communicative position regarding the reported. The applied way of analyzing practical material is justified: from the hierarchization of linguistic means of expressing the modus meaning of “oscillation” within the functional-semantic field to the definition of their functional-communicative properties in the semantic structure of the sentence.
Keywords
addressee,
speaker,
hesitation,
modalization,
uncertainty,
assumption,
hesitation situation,
meaning,
doubt,
expressiveness
About the Authors
I. Nagornyy
Jilin University
China
China
Igor A. Nagornyy – Dr. Sci. (Philology), Prof., Prof., Institute of Foreign Languages
Qianjin Road 10, Changchun 130012
A. Dolzhenkova
Secondary school no. 21
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alena I. Dolzhenkova – Cand. Sci. (Philology), Teacher
ul. Chapaeva 14, Belgorod 308015
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