The Pragmatic Aspect of Modality in the English Mass-Media Discourse
Mukhtarullina A. Issakova S. Alimbek G. Issakova A.
July 2024Sciedu Press
World Journal of English Language
2024#14Issue 4322 - 327 pp.
The article is devoted to the pragmatic aspect of modality representation in the English mass-media discourse. The categorial status of modality, typology of modal meanings and their interaction have been examined from the viewpoint of historical perspective. The research is aimed at revealing the pragmatic characteristics of subjective-interpersonal (author-recipient) modality, which reflects the authors intentions to describe the world (epistemic modality), change the world (deontic modality), evaluate the world (axiological modality). The four factors of internet communication - the addresser, the addressee, the text, the objective reality - are studied within the framework of communicative-pragmatic approach to modality. The discourse-analysis and pragma-stylistic analysis have been applied to depict language means representing modality in the English mass-media Internet discourse, in the article on political issues. It has been revealed that the author of the article may act differently in accordance with the roles he assumes - of an informer, of an expert-analyst, of a consultant-adviser; his task is to attract the readers and involve them in discussion in the comments section. The expression of authorship is principal here and the authors modality is always explicit. The comments following the text of an article are distinguished by a variety of the authors communicative strategies and modal meanings. Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s), with first publication rights granted to the journal.
article , category of modality , communicative-pragmatic approach , internet-comment , internet-communication , mass-media discourse , objective and subjective modality , the authors modality
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Department of Foreign Languages of Humanities Faculties, Ufa University of Science and Technology, Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa, Russian Federation
Department of Kazakh Philology, K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University, Aktobe, Kazakhstan
Department of Practical Kazakh Language, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Department of Kazakh Philology, Caspian University of Technologies and Engineering named after Sh. Yessenov, Aktau, Kazakhstan
Department of Foreign Languages of Humanities Faculties
Department of Kazakh Philology
Department of Practical Kazakh Language
Department of Kazakh Philology
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