Modal Semantics in Children’s Literature

Linguistic means actualizing deontical, alethical, axiological and epistemical modality in children’s literature are researched in the article. It’s been proved that linguistic means of modal semantics refer to the effective instruments influencing the evolutionary process of child’s cognitive development. This aim is reached by the following means used by the author: lexical and grammatical forms (nonstandard syntactic structures, attitudinal lexemes), phonetic forms (phrase intonation variability due to inversion and graphical means), stylistic figures exploitation (metaphors, epithets, comparisons) that present the functional field of subjective modality semantics. Key words: subjective modality, semantics, children’s literature, linguistic means.