MODALITATEA LINGVISTICĂ: ÎNTRE CATEGORIA LOGICO-FILOSOFICĂ ȘI FUNCȚIONAL-SEMANTICĂ

Victoria BARCARU, Emilia OGLINDĂ Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Abstract

THE LINGUISTIC MODALITY: BETWEEN LOGICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL AND UNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC CATEGORY The grammatical category of modality has been under controversial investigation for a long period of time. This fact suggests the need to elucidate certain conceptual aspects of the reported category, taking into account its topicality to describe the particularities and structure of different languages in general. The present article focuses on the functionality of modality as a semantic-pragmatic entity, taking into account, at the same time, some logical-philosophical implications of the approached problem. In an attempt to synthesize various views on the concept, we have analysed the real/unreal opposition in relation to the objective world, beyond a purely linguistic universality, thus becoming an expression of human empathy through the communicative act of linguistic identification. Keywords: mode, objective/subjective, real/unreal, reality status, norm, possible worlds.