ON COMMUNICATIVE POTENTIAL OF MODALITY CATEGORY (ON THE EXAMPLE S OF THE REALISATION MEANING OF POSSIBILITY IN THE DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS)
The article examines the communicative potential of modality category being revealed in connection with the expression of modal relations of non-modal vocabulary according to the functional approach. Thus, modal semantics of the causative verbs «разрешать», «позволять», «запрещать», «воспрещать» and of the predicates «разрешено», «позволено», «запрещено», «воспрещено» in the directive speech acts reflecting the distinctive features of communicative relations of the socially unequal subjects is analyzed in accordance with this approach. Syntagmatic-semantic peculiarities of the verbs and predicates mentioned above represent the modal situation in which the definite condition mediates the relations between the subject and potentially linked to it possible and impossible actions.