«YES» & «NO»: EPISTEMIC MODALITY OR MEMORY OF MEANING?
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2014, Vol 0, Issue 22
Abstract
The present investigation focuses on the remarks that express subjective evaluation in communication and contain or do not contain a predication structure in its traditional understanding of a subjectpredicate nexus. The author determines the status of the aforementioned type of utterances with the newlysuggested term «truth-evaluation remarks» and analyses their role in the process of speech interaction of the communicants, paying special attention to the utterances devoid an explicit structure of predication. The whole corpus of truth-evaluation remarks falls into three classes, two of which are polar in their appraising the situation and the third is represented by a class of indefinite remarks. A conclusion is made as to the predominance of non-predication structured utterances for making a truth-evaluation statement within the classes of both positive and negative remarks. However, the quantitative ratio of the remarks in polar classes is not the same, with the positive evaluation utterances cropping by far more often. From the point of view of information storage and digestion, «Yes» and «No» represent mathematical absolutes of counter-polarity and function as ready-to-use clichés in speech. The psychological grounding of such truth-evaluation markers lies in the memory of meaning characteristic of human mind and functioning as systemisers of the associations that reflect the object’s most important characteristics as taken in by the speaker. In fact, predominance of the non-predication structured utterances over those containing a structure of predication is explained by the absence of necessity to generate new structures of predication with there already existing non-predication structured remarks. The results of the carried-out investigation leads to the conclusion about truth-evaluation statements serving as special language units which provide communicants’ feedback and direct the dialogical process, involving mental associations from the memory of meaning.
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I. B. Morozova
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