Categories of personality, modality and their text-forming function

Abstract

This article covers the issues of studying and scientific linguistic explanation of the categories of personality, modality and their text-forming function. An important reason for referring to the fiction texts was interest in expanding the studied literary material in order to research text linguistics. The studies were carried out using fragments of texts by the following modern prose writers as (based on sentences-examples) Konchalovsky A., Marinina A.B., Ulitskaya L.E., Tokareva V.S. and Gladkiy V.D. The narrative text of the authors' works of fiction is analyzed as a united literary work, expressively combined with the variety of subject-speech planes, with the established various and complex functional relationships. The article represents personality and modality as an integrative text category that determines its cognitive content. Creation of different authors’ texts typology on a dominant basis of personality and modality is shown as a linguo-aesthetic text category of modality and personality, which characterizes a literary work when interacting.