Concepts and Categories of Modality
Abstract
Modality is a basic meaning combined into an utterance, each of the utterances is always divided up two parts: dictum and modus. Dictum is the main information; modus is the additional one of the utterance to express an attitude of judgement, assumption or a status of the speaker to the state of affairs. Nowadays, modality has been concerned by linguists due to its complexity but its full interest. In any languages, if people take modality out of an utterance, its state of affairs will become dry, poor and lose the beauty of the language. Cao Xuan Hao stated that the proposition of any utterance must contains a modus (or combine many segments of modus). Based on this statement, this paper desires summary different concepts and categories of modality in order to help us recognize easy epistemic modality and have a plan to study it fully.
Keywords: Modality (modus), A state of affair, Dictum, Parole, Langue.
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