%0 Journal Article %T Modality as a communicative category: Some debatable aspects of research %A Vaulina S. %J Vestnik Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %D 2013 %I Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %X This article considers the theoretical problems of modality that do not have an unambiguous interpretation in modern research literature as a functional-semantic and communicative category. These are the issues of the legitimacy and adequacy of identifying subjective and objective modality, the specific features of interaction between objective and subjective modalities in the language and text in view of the communicative orientation, and the function and genre of the latter. %K modality %K objective modality %K subjective modality %K text modality %K fiction text modality %U http://journals.kantiana.ru/upload/iblock/df3/Vaulina_7-12.pdf