Abstract
The aim of the paper is to identify the linguistic means of utterance categoricity in modern English-language scientific texts on linguistics. The paper analyzed examples from modern English-language scientific monographs and collections of articles that use categorical utterance techniques, identified the multi-level ways of creating categoricity in a scientific text and assessed their effectiveness in such texts. The study is novel in that it is the first to highlight the techniques and methods of categoricity expression in English-language scientific prose, as well as to summarize the means for achieving maximum impact on the addressee. The results of the study showed that utterance categoricity in an English-language scientific text is of a communicative nature and is determined mainly by the degree of the author’s confidence in the absolute correctness of his/her statements. The categoricity effect in scientific texts can mainly be achieved through the redundancy of information technique, by combining deontic constructions and modal intensifier constructions, the emphatic ‘do’, intensive words and syntactic constructions with the adversative or concessive meaning and the emphatic split construction ‘It is… that’.
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