Abstract

The research aim is to identify the specific structure of the modal categorial situation of necessity and the peculiarities of linguistic means usage to represent it in German-language instructional texts featuring a specific subject – an animal. Within the framework of the categorial situation concept, the modal value of necessity is examined, and the structural features of the necessity categorial situation in the analyzed texts are characterized. The linguistic means used in the German language to express it were highlighted, and the specifics of their usage for different models of necessity situations were described and analyzed. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the first attempt to model the categorial situation of necessity and define the linguistic features of these models in instructional texts in the German language – manuals on care and upbringing of animals, where subjects include not only humans but also animals. Two structural models with different types of action subject were identified, where the determination of necessity and the level of obligatoriness influence the choice of linguistic means to express modal necessity in the studied German texts.

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