SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS CATEGORIZING THE EXPLICIT MANIFESTATION OF DOUBT IN THE MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Yakubova Natal'ya Mikhailovna
Amur State University
Abstract. The author focuses on the syntactic means to represent doubt through the non-me modus frame which objectifies the view on the subject of state from the position of observer. Relying on the research findings the author identified the following syntactic constructions categorizing the explicit manifestation of doubt: he/she/they + seem + to be doubting; he/she/they + seem, appear, look, sound + doubtful, he/she/they + to be being + doubtful and constructions with the conjunctions as if, as though.
Key words and phrases: сомнение, внешняя точка зрения, не-Я модусная рамка, наблюдатель, синтаксические конструкции, doubt, outside view, non-me modus frame, observer, syntactic constructions, doubt, outside view, non-me modus frame, observer, syntactic constructions
Open the whole article in PDF format. Free PDF-files viewer can be downloaded .
References:
Arutyunova N. D. Yazyk i mir cheloveka. M.: Yazyki russkoi kul'tury, 1999. 896 s.
Vereshchagin E. M., Kostomarov V. G. O svoeobrazii otrazheniya mimiki i zhestov verbal'nymi sredstvami (na materiale russkogo yazyka) // Voprosy yazykoznaniya. 1981. № 1. S. 36-47.
Verkhoturova T. L. Faktor nablyudatelya v nauke. Irkutsk: IGLU, 2008. 289 s.
Vol'f E. M. Emotsional'nye sostoyaniya i ikh predstavleniya v yazyke // Logicheskii analiz yazyka. Problemy intensional'nykh i pragmaticheskikh kontekstov. M.: Nauka, 1989. S. 55-75.
Glotova G. A. Chelovek i znak: semiotiko-psikhologicheskie aspekty ontogeneza cheloveka. Sverdlovsk: Izd-vo Ural'skogo un-ta, 1990. 256 s.
Semenova T. I. Lingvisticheskii fenomen kazhimosti. Irkutsk: IGLU, 2007. 237 s.
Trushkova L. O. Emotsional'nyi kontsept SADNESS: diss. … k. filol. n. Irkutsk, 2010. 164 s.
Austin J. Other Minds // Philosophical Papers. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979. P. 76-116.
Compton J. Rescuing Olivia. Longwood: Fresh Fork Publishing, 2013. 385 p.
Forkner T. A. Ruby Among Us: A Novel. Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2008. 336 p.
Goudge E. Otherwise Engaged. N. Y.: Pocket Books, 2005. 432 p.
Hogan J. P. Moon Flower. N. Y.: Viking Penguin, 2008. 452 p.
Lovett S. A Desperate Silence. N. Y.: Pocket Books, 2003. 400 p.
McEachin J. Tell Me a Tale. N. Y.: Random House Publ. Group, 1996. 224 p.
Munro A. Chance. N. Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks Ed., 2007. 304 p.
Rivers F. A Voice in the Wind. Carol Stream: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2012. 546 p.
Smith B. Relentless. N. Y.: Leisure Book, 2010. 289 p.
Русский
