Conditional Sentences as a Means of Verbalizing Values (In the Example of English)

Abstract

This study deals with the analysis of the axiological potential of conditional sentences in the English language which is aimed at revealing axiological features of conditional sentences in English in terms of expressing values in a communicative context. In order to achieve the aim of the study, the following tasks are set: review of related literature; analysis of axiological characteristics of English conditional sentences; identification and classification of values expressed by conditional sentences in English. The results of research show that conditional sentences in English can: a) contribute to the verbalization of axiological picture of the world; b) verbalize some basic values as close relationship, trust, magic and anti-value such as badness as well as value and anti-value as life and death in a specific communicative context; c) express values with the help of whole syntactic meaning.