Modern linguistics

The article examines a cognitive script of the transmission of reliable information on the example of German modal words (MW). To achieve the goal of the study, a cognitive method was used, the main postulate of which is considered to be the active interaction of the structure of consciousness (mental representations) and the structure of the language. It is primarily about the representation of mental processes and their results in the language. The emergence of the cognitive method is associated with the attention of linguists, first of all, to the person himself or herself and his or her consciousness. With regard to the concept of reliability, we should note our understanding of reliability as an indication of the qualification of information as corresponding to reality, which does not cause doubts among members of a certain community.