On Means of Expressing Author’s Modality in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”

The article considers specificity of implementing one of the major structure-and-substance constituent of the semantic category of modality – the author's modality in the Old Russian epic "The Tale of Igor's Campaign". In the focus of attention there is a functional and semantic...

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Main Author: Svetlana Sergeevna Vaulina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Volgograd State University 2016-07-01
Series:Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie
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description The article considers specificity of implementing one of the major structure-and-substance constituent of the semantic category of modality – the author's modality in the Old Russian epic "The Tale of Igor's Campaign". In the focus of attention there is a functional and semantic analysis of actual modality modifiers that might be represented with various language unit meanings of situational modality (possibility, necessity, desirability in their fragmental variations containing) and might get an additional function in the entire context, that is communicating subjective evaluation with the aim to express values and author's intentions. In "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" such function is performed by a variety of evaluative means, including old Russian token – modal verb мочи, adverb лепо, modal predicate нелзе, grammatical modality modifiers like rhetorical questions, sentences with an independent infinitive; their modal meanings are supported with high expressiveness and emotionality. Special attention is given in the article to the predicative adverb лепо, that is marked in known text translations into modern Russian with a variety of equivalents and are justified in Historical dictionaries of the Russian Language. The author concludes that the impersonal verb пристало is used as an equivalent to this adverb, thus adequately revealing the author's patriotic line in "The Tale of Igor's Campaign". The research has proved that the modality modifiers function as text-forming constituents and point to the accurate interpretation of the author's modality in this epic work.
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spelling doaj.art-791ecb76347341b9892ff12b14917a392022-12-22T03:07:12ZengVolgograd State UniversityVestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie1998-99112409-19792016-07-01152253310.15688/jvolsu2.2016.2.3On Means of Expressing Author’s Modality in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”Svetlana Sergeevna Vaulina0Immanuil Kant Baltic Federal UniversityThe article considers specificity of implementing one of the major structure-and-substance constituent of the semantic category of modality – the author's modality in the Old Russian epic "The Tale of Igor's Campaign". In the focus of attention there is a functional and semantic analysis of actual modality modifiers that might be represented with various language unit meanings of situational modality (possibility, necessity, desirability in their fragmental variations containing) and might get an additional function in the entire context, that is communicating subjective evaluation with the aim to express values and author's intentions. In "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" such function is performed by a variety of evaluative means, including old Russian token – modal verb мочи, adverb лепо, modal predicate нелзе, grammatical modality modifiers like rhetorical questions, sentences with an independent infinitive; their modal meanings are supported with high expressiveness and emotionality. Special attention is given in the article to the predicative adverb лепо, that is marked in known text translations into modern Russian with a variety of equivalents and are justified in Historical dictionaries of the Russian Language. The author concludes that the impersonal verb пристало is used as an equivalent to this adverb, thus adequately revealing the author's patriotic line in "The Tale of Igor's Campaign". The research has proved that the modality modifiers function as text-forming constituents and point to the accurate interpretation of the author's modality in this epic work.https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/component/attachments/download/1347modalityauthor's modalitytext-forming functionthe Old Russian text"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"modal verb and predicaterhetorical questionsentence with an independent infinitive
spellingShingle Svetlana Sergeevna Vaulina
On Means of Expressing Author’s Modality in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”
Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie
modality
author's modality
text-forming function
the Old Russian text
"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"
modal verb and predicate
rhetorical question
sentence with an independent infinitive
title On Means of Expressing Author’s Modality in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”
title_full On Means of Expressing Author’s Modality in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”
title_fullStr On Means of Expressing Author’s Modality in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”
title_full_unstemmed On Means of Expressing Author’s Modality in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”
title_short On Means of Expressing Author’s Modality in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”
title_sort on means of expressing author s modality in the tale of igor s campaign
topic modality
author's modality
text-forming function
the Old Russian text
"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"
modal verb and predicate
rhetorical question
sentence with an independent infinitive
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