THE FUTURE MEANINGS IN MODERN ENGLISH

Abstract

The modern paradigm of language study and its inner characteristics demands for comprehensive approach that takes into consideration not only structural planes of a language unit but its semantic and communicative aspects. In the view of the anthropocentric paradigm cognitive mechanisms of mentality explicated in mind through lingual functional models are of great interest. Therefore the importance lies in understanding cognitive and functional basis of the category of future in modern English. The aim of the given article is to study cognitive and functional, as well as semantic-cognitive and communicative qualities of the category of future in modern English basing on scientific literature, fiction, belles-lettres and press materials. Theoretical value of the research is in presentation of comprehensive analysis of language means to express future tense in the framework of cognitive and functional directions. Practical value of the research is the possibility to use its results and principles to comply a lecture course of Cognitive and Functional Linguistics, to prepare manuals and textbooks in the correspondent area. The following research methods are used within the work: method of contextological analysis, descriptive method, method of component analysis, method of field analysis, transformative method, and method of element counting. To get the factual material the method of total selection was chosen. The object of research is semantic-cognitive and functional specificities of future time in the language system. The area of research is structural and semantic qualities of FSF of Futurality and its constituents. The settled aim requires that the following objectives be fulfilled: a) description of basic cognitive grounds for categorical development of time notion; b) analysis of development of deictic means to express future time; c) finding out grammatical means used in Modern English to explicitly and implicitly express future time; d) working out the model of FSF of Futurality taking into account semantic and functional specificities of its constituents; e) analysis of future situations in press texts and of pragmatic-communicative peculiarities of language mean to express futurality.