The Modal Component of a Text as a Typological Discourse Feature (Exemplified in Scientific and Media Discourse)
The article identifies functional and pragmatic and language markers of differentiating discourse types and text types forming a particular type of discourse. The author offers an analytical model for solving a number of problems connected with communicative interaction study, including the analysis of the modal characteristics of a text. Dominant modal meanings are pointed out for scientific articles and news bulletins with regard to their distribution in text modules and in functional-semantic types of utterances, which realize dominant communicative intentions.