SUBJECTIVE MODALITY: THE ROLE OF EXCLAMATIONS IN THE FORMATION OF SUBJECTIVE MODALITY

Abstract

Modality is a grammatical-semantic category that reflects the speaker’s attitude to the idea expressed the attitude of the expressed idea to objective reality. There are 2 types of modality: objective and subjective. Subjective modality is the speaker’s assessment of the described facts and events. It is an expression of his certainty, uncertainty, his agreement, his dissatisfaction, his concern, his positive and negative evaluation. A participant in a communicative act in accordance with his intention and emotional state, carries out various modal assessments of the information transmitted in his speech and expresses his emotional reactions. Modal reactions are closely related to the emotional state of the speaker. One of the linguistic and most importantly means of expressing emotionally in language. Expressing feelings and emotions are exclamations. Exclamations reflect the
attitude of the subject towards the object. In addition to expressing feelings and excitement exclamations express a person’s attitude to an idea within a sentence.