Pragmatic Peculiarities of the Utterances with Subjunctive Mood in the Modern English Language

Study of pragmatic types of sentences is an important sphere of linguistic studies, as the knowledge of language requires not only ability to build up sentences (language competence), but also ability to use them correctly in speech acts in order to achieve needed communicative-functional result (communicative competence). The subject matter of this research is the pragmatic peculiarities of the utterances with Subjunctive Mood in the Modern English language. The aim of this research is to investigate the pragmatic peculiarities of the utterances with Subjunctive Mood in the Modern English language by means of analytical examination of the modern English literary texts. The matter of the peculiarities of pragmatic types of sentences with Subjunctive Mood in the modern English language has been investigated оn the basis of the detective novel “Tell me your Dreams” by Sidney Sheldon, popular American writer of the 20th-21st century. Proceeding from the aim of the research, there were a number of concrete tasks set to be carried out: 1) to describe the pragmatic peculiarities of the utterances with Subjunctive I; 2) to describe the pragmatic peculiarities of the utterances with Subjunctive II; 3) to describe the pragmatic peculiarities of the utterances with Suppositional Mood; 4) to describe the pragmatic peculiarities of the utterances with Conditional Mood. The results of this investigation proved the current relevance and the novelty of the study. The current relevance of the topic of the research is conditioned by the necessity of overall theoretical viewing the category of modality and the systematization of the means of its expression in the Modern English language. Despite the large number of theoretical works by domestic and foreign researches devoted to the issue of modality, this question requires constant reconsideration by means of analytical investigation of the modern literary