EPISTEMIC-DEONTIC CLUSTER WILL, WON’T: EXPRESSION OF DOUBT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DISCOURSE
Keywords:
doubt, epistemic state, epistemic modality, deontic modality, epistemic-deontic buffer zoneAbstract
The article presents a research on marking doubt in the English language discourse by epistemic-deontic cluster will, won’t. The research starts with description of the grounds of the scientific problem, explanation of the main epistemic categories and terminology. The author gives its own interdisciplinary definition from the philosophical and psychological perspective on the basis of cognitive linguistics and epistemology. For illustrating the usage of will, won’t and their grammatical and contracted forms shall, shan’t, ’ll we have chosen examples where all their modal meanings are covered: ranging from deontic interpretation of desire or intention, threat or promise, and to the epistemic interpretation of anticipation and prediction, which includes the element of doubt. The cases when deontic and epistemic spheres of meaning start contaminating each other are also given special attention.
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