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- Title
TEXT MODALITY AND THE MODUS IN LITHUANIAN AND ENGLISH ART REVIEWS.
- Authors
Sriubaitė, Jūrgita
- Abstract
Contemporary society is offered new pieces of art every day and that can be interpreted as indirect communication. The audience have to make their choice and art reviews are a good means that helps people to get a handle on all this. This article is expected to be relevant as it provides an insight of how reviewers understand certain art works, how they express their opinion or attitude towards them and then what their evaluation is, which consequently helps the audience form their opinion about the works reviewed. The object of the research is evaluation of different pieces of art expressed through modality in present-day Lithuanian and English reviews found in the media. The article aims at finding out how different means of realization of modality are employed to express the speaker's / writer's positive and / or negative attitude / evaluation of a piece of art in Lithuanian and English reviews. This is achieved by setting such objectives as to find out different means of how different shades of evaluation are revealed in Lithuanian and English art reviews and later to compare and analyse the results of the research. The material for the research was compiled from the Lithuanian periodical Literatūra ir menas and the Review of the British periodical The Observer of the years 2009-2010. Descriptive, contrastive and analytical methods were applied in this work. The theoretical part of this article surveys the review as a discourse type and enumerates its aims and functions it serves. It also looks at evaluation as one of the basic functions of the review. Modality is seen here as a means to express the reviewer's attitude towards the work analysed. This work reviews different treatments of modality and its definitions and then defines text modality as it is used in this article, ie a universal linguistic communicative-pragmatic category focusing mainly on the author's opinion about and attitude towards the work analysed. The results of the research show that modal adverbs are used similarly to express more or less certainty in art reviews whereas the other means of realization of modality appear more frequently in Lithuanian art reviews than in their English counterparts. There also seems to be a tendency to employ modality as a means of mitigating negative evaluations in Lithuanian art reviews while English reviewers tend to apply other means.
- Subjects
MODALITY (Linguistics); LITHUANIAN art; ENGLISH art; MODERN society; MODERN art; COMMUNICATION; TRANSLATING &; interpreting
- Publication
Language in Different Contexts / Kalba ir Kontekstai, 2011, Vol 4, Issue 2, p249
- ISSN
1822-5357
- Publication type
Article