ANALYSIS OF MODAL MEANINGS IN PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES AND THE CONCEPT OF THE LOGICAL-SEMANTIC FIELD OF POSSIBILITY

Abstract

The article analyzes modal meanings of the irreal plane of possibility in statements taken from the speeches of the members of Parliament and the members of the government in the State Duma of the Russian Empire and in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The discovered meanings are divided into three groups: basic meanings (possibility and impossibility), particular meanings, and meanings of the pragmatic modality. These meanings are explored by the methods of linguistic analysis. The concept of a logical-semantic field of possibility is introduced to join all the modal meanings. The presented scheme of this concept allows to see the system relations between all the considered modal meanings and the ways of their implementation in speech.