AKTY ZAPROSZEŃ W POLSKO- I ROSYJSKOJĘZYCZNYCH WIADOMOŚCIACH PRZESYŁANYCH NA KARTACH POCZTOWYCH
SPEECH ACTS OF INVITATION IN POLISH AND RUSSIAN POSTCARD MESSAGES

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze Polish and Russian speech acts of invitation sent on postcards in the second half of the 20th century. Although invitations have been the subject of considerable linguistic interest so far, speech acts of invitation observed in postcard messages per se have not been studied yet. The study concerns the location of speech acts of invita- tion in the structure of postcard messages, their formal and pragmatic features, as well as their pre- and postpositional context. The analysis proves that speech acts of invitation usually serve as an additional element of the Polish messages, while the Russian invitations occupy more central positions. It has also been shown that direct speech acts of invitation are rarely found in both languages. In contrast, indirect speech acts of invitation are utilized more frequently and they commonly take on the form of sentences with imperative verb forms.

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