Ironical and sarcastic implication as a means of modality of doubt forming in the English-speaking publicistic discourse
In the submitted article, the phenomena of irony, sarcasm and modality of doubt are presented as parts of hierarchic system formed on the ground of anthropocentric approach to the language facts interpretation. The modality of doubt is a gnosiological category that reflects the attitude of a subject towards an object during the process of cognitive activity. According to the publicistic discourse, it serves as an esthetic means of impact strategy on a reader, makes special semantic space that is formed by irony and sarcasm as indirect means of language. In the textual level, irony and sarcasm are expressed by the complex of linguistic means, which forms the implied sense (implication) of an article in their interaction. The implication appears in ironical or sarcastic tone of the article, which depends on the author's attitude or on outside factors (public opinion, for example), specifying the critical assessment level of the analysis object. Ironical implication, in comparison with the sarcastic one, is the most coven. It influences on the article composition and it is expressed primarily by the syntactic means. Sarcasm, as occurrences of the highly negative attitude to the circumstances, is expressed primarily by the lexical and lexical-stylistic means. In this system, the modality of doubt is the more global category of the publicistic discourse.