ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HYPOTHETICAL CATEGORY IN POPULAR SCIENTIFIC ELECTRONIC TEXTS WITH A NON-VERBAL COMPONENT

Abstract

In the recent anthropological paradigm in linguistics, much attention is paid to how people choose ways to reflect various aspects of reality in speech. In particular, researchers are interested in ways of expressing the unreality (hypothetical character) of the described phenomena, objects or events. This interest is based on the fact that human mind considers the world around it either by fixing the presence of certain facts, objects, events, or by reflecting its vision of this world with varying degrees of certainty, while creating an invented world. The article attempts to identify and describe ways to implement the hypothetical language category in interaction with the non-verbal component within the framework of an electronic popular science text. The research material is taken from electronic versions of journals “Bild der Wissenschaft”, “Spiegel”, “GEO”, “Focus”.