THE AUTHOR’S MODALITY OF A LITERARY TEXT IN THE PARADIGM OF NARRATOLOGY

In the article the modality of a literary text is studied from the standpoint of identifying markers of consciousness of the “speaking subject” in it, which, thanks to the narrative approach, allow to thematize life, establish correlations of events and their general configuration. The relevance of the undertaken research is determined by the anthropocentrism of modern linguistics, as well as the heuristic potential of narratology, which allows us to consider the author's modality as the basis for the organization of the individual author's picture of the world. The purpose of this article is to identify the means of realizing the author's modality in primesearchteam and narrative aspects. The research methodology is determined by the multidimensionality of the chosen object and includes the method of transformation, deductive-inductive method, cognitive-semantic and pragmasemantic analysis of modal linguistic units of multilevel belonging, contextual analysis, method of logical-linguistic and philological interpretation. The analysis suggests that the author's modality in a literary text is the result of cognitive-pragmatic activity of the subject of reference and the subject of evaluation. These subjects can be combined in one-the author or in his compositional “substitutes” (narrator, narrator, characters). Therefore, modality as a textual category is studied at the intersection of two problem areas – the identification of the subject represented in the text (the aspect of the referential modality) and the actual modal problems (the aspect of the subjective-evaluative modality). The text modality is studied in dynamics. That way of its consideration allows to reveal and describe the potential of semantic transformations in the process of interaction of the components of a literary text in its receptive-interpretative space. The author's modality is implemented at the lexical, grammatical, syntactic levels, in the coordinates of the characters ‘ characteristics; it influences the segmentation of the utterance in terms of the allocation of its predicative and relational segments, thereby focusing the attention of the addressee on specific text fragments. At the textual level, the author's modality is also manifested by various means: these are the author's digressions, metatextual inclusions, indirect characteristics, dialogicity.