Shabat-Savka S. Verbalization of the category of communicative intention : cognitive, grammatical and discursive aspects

The thesis presents an integrated study of the category of communicative intentions in the Ukrainian language. Communicative intention is granted the status of linguistic category, its interlevel categorical status, expressed through modal-intentional constructions, speech equivalents, discursive utterances and determined by sociocultural space and worldview of the Ukrainian people, is substantiated. The dominant component of communicative intention category is syntactic level, the system units of which are where functional perfection lexical, morphological and derivative means find their functional perfection. The novelty of the present research lies in presenting of the category of communicative intentions appeared in three guises: 1) as a cognitive-mental concept that reveals the depth of the conscious and subconscious and is related to the people's thought process and linguistic mentality; 2) as a linguistic category actualized through modal-intentional constructions and sentence equivalents; 3) as an important factor in the organization and text forming of the Ukrainian discourse genre and stylistic varieties.