ABOUT THE CATEGORIES OF LINGUISTIC EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY

Abstract

In the article, the category of evidentiality and epistemic modality has been clarified with the similar and distinctive features by the viewpoints of different scholars of the world. These two categories have been empirically analyzed on the example of fiction within two languages, the same features have been identified. Moreover, it has been proven that the evidentiality occurs not only in the structure of action verbs or perceptual verbs, but also in the structure of introductory words, adverbs and nouns. Evidentiality serves at the level of trust and obligation of epistemic modality, and it is determined that it expresses the judgement of the speaker according to the factual situation. Furthermore, in the article, the category of evidentiality and epistemic modality is established a synergetic relationship between meanings and epistemological position and legal strategies as related terms that can be encountered in discourse were also discussed.