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The Modality of Opinion as Illocumental Modality

Аkkurt V. Ye.pdf


Key words: category of persuasion, jurisprudence discourse, implicide and explicide facilities, influence on the addressee..


The article describes the forms of the modality of the opinion’s expression. Implicit (reception of “actualization” of opinion, implicit predication, and also tropeic means related to special methods) and explicit (attributive phrases, propositional verbs, modal verbs and syntactic constructions) means. During the study, it was discovered that the means of expressing the modality of opinion carry a communicative “task”.