STRATEGIES OF MODALITY CHOICE OF UTTERANCES IN GERMAN CULTURE

Q3 Arts and Humanities Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.20916/1812-3228-2021-1-89-100

O. Kostrova

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In the paper the author explores possibilities of how basic concepts of German culture can influence the speech activity of the speaker. The research is done on the crossing point of grammar, theory of communication and linguistic conceptology. The paper deals with German modal verbs functioning in modern fiction texts. The author discusses the problem of modality choice by the speaking personality producing the utterance. The research aims at revealing correspondences between the grammar system of German modal verbs in their functioning and German speaking personality who encodes his/her choice influenced by basic concepts of German low context culture, namely INDIVIDUALISM, ORDER and RESPONSIBILITY. The correlation takes into account the transparency of strong German modal verb system and direct communication style of German speaking personality who chooses in this case an overt modal strategy. The other strategy type is the softening one. The personality mitigates his/her utterance taking into consideration the personality of the partner. Overt strategy is used for encoding deontic modality and softening strategy denotes epistemic modality and some others cases. The findings open access for understanding German linguistic identity.

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期刊介绍： Issues of Cognitive Linguistics (Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki) is published under the auspices of the Russian Cognitive Linguists Association. It is an international peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for linguistic research on topics which investigate the interaction between language and human cognition. The contributions focus on topics such as cognitive discourse analysis, phenomenology-based cognitive linguistic research, cognitive sociolinguistics, and cover such matters as mental space theory, blending theory, political discourse, cognitive stylistics, cognitive poetics, natural language categorization, conceptualization theory, lexical network theory, cognitive modeling. Issues of Cognitive Linguistics promotes the constructive interaction between linguistics and such neighbouring disciplines as sociology, cultural studies, psychology, neurolinguistics, communication studies, translation theory and educational linguistics.