Indicators of uncertainty in dialect speech

The article deals with parenthetical modal words, indicators of uncertainty, operating in dialectal speech; an attempt to establish the connection between the subject, the time and the correlation of expression and choice of speaking of an indicator of uncertainty. Research of semantics and functioning of parenthetical modal words and constructions made mainly on the material of the literary language are devoted to the topical problems of the description of the formation of vocabulary. Many of these works are on the development of concepts and schemes that would allow to fully disclose the specifics of modal words, to develop methods for the analysis of statements with modal words, allow to supplement and clarify their descriptions. Despite the common means of expression of modal meanings in literary language and dialect speech, there are also specific dialectal means, for example, modal word vsyako-razno [of course], combinations kak vot, li kak, libo, li kak li, li net li, li che li, and dialect versions odnako, mozha, mozhe, mozhet'. Indicators of uncertainty are parenthetical modal words and particles kazhetsya, budto, kak budto, vrode. They can not be used in conventional constructions and in the composition of assumptions about the future, but if we are talking about information received on the basis of the sensory experience of the speaker, including memoirs, as well as the information source is the third person, an indicator of uncertainty can only be used in a part of the hypothetical statements. It is also proposed to separately characterize the indicator of uncertainty kazhetsya: the speaker uses it in the presence of immediate, perceptual information about the subject of the speech, which they for some reason do not trust completely; kazhetsya, vrode, vrode kak, kak budto, govoryat are used in speech when the speaker bases on information received from third parties; and operators of uncertain assessment are kazhetsya, po-moemu. As indicators of the speech genre of assumption, these modal words require a detailed description and classification. The task of the article is to group the analyzed uncertainty indices by the degree of certainty of the speaker in the truth of their conclusions. Talking about the use of conditionality thematic indicators of uncertainty in dialect speech, they can be compared with hypothetical figures. Indicators of uncertainty can not be used in statements containing prediction. The first group of statements that contain indicators of uncertainty is statements possessing prior knowledge of the subject matter of speech. The second group of statements may be divided into two subgroups. Subgroup 1) contains information about the situation which the speaker has experienced. Subgroup 2) contains messages talking about events / situations in which the speaker took no personal involvement. Such statements may contain a link to the source. It is concluded that inside the assumption speech genre (that is regularly realized in the speech of dialect speakers and has a number of its own formal characteristics, some of which are studied above) it is possible to single out the following subgenres: judgment about the present, recollection, judgment about health or behavior.

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