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Exploring Interpersonal Components of Language in a Work of Fiction

This paper investigates interpersonal meanings in a work of fiction created by the use of various modal expressions and the ideology that lies behind two different modal systems constructed in it. The analysis of modality is conducted on the corpus of the essay A Room of One's Own by V. Woolf within the framework of discourse analysis (DA) and pragmatics. Within DA the research is focused on the function of modal expressions in the overall discourse organization, while the pragmatic aspect is more focused on the dominant role of context in determining the meaning of frequently very polysemic modal expressions. The analysis comprises over 90 examples of modal use which all contain the pronoun 'one' occupying the syntactic function of a subject. The paper investigates how 'one' as a subject, which defocuses the agent, is linked to various modal expressions from the communicative-functional approach, when its semantics implies animacy and human behaviour, linking it therefore to the speaker and the expression of subjectivity. Various modal expressions, which can represent different modal systems, are being looked into from the aspect of different ideologies construed in the essay - possibility, probability, inference, obligation, permission etc.

modality ; modal expressions ; discourse analysis ; pragmatics ; pronoun 'one'

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