EVIDENTIAL RESOURCE OF A MEDICAL TEXT ON THE EXAMPLE OF A MEDICAL HISTORY

Abstract

The article views the issues of the category of evidentiality functioning in the Russian language and the means of its expression. The article marks the problems of the categorical status of the category of evidentiality. There is narrative nature of various types of texts in the article and there is also study of such medical text as a medical history compared with the meanings of the famous types of evidentiality. The study was conducted on the basis of the medical histories written by doctors of different specialties. The article presents a classification of evidential values in the sections of medical history. The author comes to the conclusion that the evidential resource of the medical document “a medical history” is realized at the level of semantics and syntax and is presented in all known projections of evidential values.