To the Question of Correlation between the Categories of Evidentiality and Epistemological Modality

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of interconnection and interaction of such linguistic phenomena as the categories of evidentiality and epistemic modality. In the article descriptive and comparative methods of the analysis are used. The categories of evidentiality and epistemic modality are intensively studied by Russian and foreign scientists. One of the first definitions of evidentiality belongs to a famous scientist R. Jakobson. Many Russian and foreign scientists study peculiarities of functioning of these categories in different languages, the forms of their presentation. There are many strategies of investigating the problem of correlation of the categories of evidentiality and epistemic modality and we came to the conclusion that these categories are so closely connected with each other that they shouldn’t be studied as separate linguistic phenomena.