ON THE VARIATION OF MOODS IN MODERN SPANISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article is dedicated to study the correlation in the use of such moods as Subjuntivo, Indicativo on Spanish and Subjonctif, Indicatif, Conditionnel in French in the subordinate clause of complex sentences. Recently, there has been fixed a tendency in grammar and in the methodology of teaching Spanish and French to consolidate the use of forms of certain moods and to avoid their variation, especially when presenting the opposition Subjuntivo / Indicativo in Spanish and Subjonctive / Indicatif in French. Nevertheless, more grammarians criticize this simplistic approach. Some of them consider it acceptable only in the initial level of learning Spanish and French. At level of more advanced learnings, taking into account not only the norm, but also the usage, there is a need for a detailed study of all components when varying moods of Spanish and French. This variation exists objectively and does not depend on the willingness or unwillingness of language researchers or methodologists to recognize it. The fact of ignoring of moods variation is called didactic myth (“mito didáctico”), and the excessive formal attachment to syntactic dependence when choosing modality forms is called formalistic blindness (“ceguera formalista”). At this stage of the research, the emphasis is on the analysis of whether the latest researches of scientists regarding the choice of moods are effective, namely operational and discursive hypothesis. And also, can it help to operate with the concepts of o informativeness (new for Subjuntivo and known for Indicativo); statement (assertion) for the Indicativo versus non statement (lack of assertion) for Subjuntivo ; solve the most difficult tasks of choosing the manner in contexts with multiple readings. At what level of education of Spanish and French should one touch on the special complicities of moods variation, and if one sould touch on them at all.