Expressing Uncertainty in the Russian and Bulgarian Discourses

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Pages: 239-248

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The invariant meaning [uncertainty] in the Russian and Bulgarian languages is expressed by linguistic means of various aspects. The constructions with a compound component modal particles in dialogues and everyday speech as one of the constituents of the functional and semantic field “uncertainty” are distinguished by varied modal meanings – doubt, supposition, probability, fear, motive for an answer. They reveal the specificity of thinking of both language groups.

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