Modus category of prediction and its interpreting potential
DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2024_2_165
Abstract. The article discusses linguistic representation of human knowledge about future events, processes, situations. The study focuses on prospective categorization of the reality. More specifically the paper considers linguistic conceptualization and categorization of forecasting as a cognitive activity. The author states that modus category of PREDICTION involves cognitive operations of interpretation, modalization, and evaluation of the conceptual content. The paper discusses discursive construal of future climate changes in English media. The findings obtained may be helpful for further study of the modal categorization as one of the forms of knowledge representation in language and its interpretative potential.
Key words: probabilistic knowledge, prediction, modus, modus verb, modus category, interpretation.
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