A consideration of modality with cohesion in NodarDumbadze's novel "I, see the sun"

Abstract

Concept “modality” is alien into the linguistics from the logic. Access to the logical bases of the concept of modality in the works of linguists made it possible to reveal many essential characteristics of this category and to correlate them with the concepts of the modal logic: modus and dictum (Sh. Balli), the modal framework (F. Palmer), objective and subjective in the modality (G. Kolshanskiy, V. Panfilov).

Thinking and language are no identical concepts; it is possible to assert that also the modal relations, separated in the logic and the linguistics are different.

Modality is defined as “functional-semantic category, which expresses the different types of the ratio of statement to the reality, and also the different types of the subjective qualification of that reported” [11: 303]. In the opinion (I. Gallperina], “the attitude of that speaking toward reality, postulated as the basic sign of modality, is to one extent or another characteristic for any statement. Since the attitude of that speaking toward reality can be expressed by different means- formal grammatical, lexical, phrase logical, syntactic, intonation, composition, stylistic,  modality occurs the category, inherent in the language in action,  of speech, and therefore are the very essence of communicative process " [5: 113].