THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE CATEGORY OF MODALITY IN WORLD LINGUISTICS

The issue of the content of the category of modality as a fundamental linguistic category and the means of its formal expression in modern linguistics has not yet been fully resolved. The growing interest in the problem of linguistic modality is reflected in numerous studies devoted to its functional essence, semantic types, and the structure of modal means. At the current stage, the study of modality as a universal syntactic category requires considering the human factor in language, examining the behavior of individuals in the communication process (such as the communicative goals and emotional state of speech participants, conditions of speech interaction, and methods of influencing the listener). The speaker, as the main factor in language dynamics, creates a unique system of representing the world based on the general language system. As a result, language reflects, on the one hand, objective reality, and on the other hand, the speaker’s subjective world and their attitude toward the described objects.