Introduction. The relevance of studying the verbal component of travel media texts is due to the development of new forms of communication in the modern information society; the popularization of travel journalism; the dynamics of linguistic changes under the influence of digitalization and mediatization processes; the lack of knowledge of the linguistic means of organizing travel media at different levels. Aim. To describe the specifics of functioning of the impersonal sentences with modal modifiers in modern travel media texts. Sources, materials, and research methods. Research sources: 169 travel media texts implementing the communicative scenario “travel through the territory” and posted on the Internet portals “Voyage”, “Russian Traveler” and “Rest in Russia”. Research material: the author's file of examples, including 257 impersonal sentences with modal operators. Methods of collecting and researching linguistic material: continuous sampling, descriptive-analytical, functional-semantic, contextual and quantitative analyses. Results. It is established that impersonal sentences with modal modifiers are a prominent part of the syntactic “landscape” of media texts-“instructions” and “destination” media texts. They use a limited range of modal operators that implement in contexts different submoduses of common meanings of possibility/impossibility and necessity, as well as infinitives included in certain lexico-semantic subgroups of verbs – movement, food consumption, acquisition, etc. The activity of dissected structures with a postpositive position of the modal modifier is noted. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the work is to identify the specifics of the functioning of the structures under consideration, due to the communicative scenario of travel media texts, their communicative tactics and attitudes. Practical significance. The obtained results can be used in the complex analysis of travel media texts in the framework of university courses “Media Linguistics”, “Theory of linguistic units and practice of speech”, “Communicative Linguistics”, etc.
И. Папуша (Sun,) studied this question.