STRUCTURE OF ARGUMENTATION THE VERACITY DEGREE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The paper deals with a problem of veracity as the assessment of the factual status of the proposition. The semantics of verbs in the structure of a predicate polynomial, consisting of two and / or three components, is analyzed; under certain contextual conditions it acquires the function of conveying the degree of truthness of an utterance. Groups of modal verbs, verbs of mental activity and verbs of phase are, as a rule, a key component of the polynomial construction, which serves to express the author's attitude to the validity of the proposition. Their precise functional semantics, based on the anthropocentric factor, a wide range of modular meanings implied in the utterance presupposes various ways of representing the opinion and evaluation of the reported fact from the point of view of the possibility of realization. The predicate polynomial specifies the degree of reliability of the speaker in the truth of the utterance, is a form of expressing a particular position and a method of influencing other participants in the communicative situation. The general theoretical basis of analysis is grounded on the concepts of veracity and truthfulness of statement, based on the experience of sensory perception and indirect information received by a person from additional sources, relying on which the author, through logical reflection, determines the nature of the phenomenon of extralinguistic reality and the degree of its truth regarding its beliefs.