THE USE OF REQUESTS IN PANDEMIC PRESS RELEASES. A CROSS-CULTURAL CASE STUDY
THE USE OF REQUESTS IN PANDEMIC PRESS RELEASES. A CROSS-CULTURAL CASE STUDY
Author(s): Alina Alexandra ApreuteseiSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Pragmatics, Philology
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: requests; pandemic; linguacultures; cross-cultural pragmatics; speech acts;
Summary/Abstract: The current paper presents an analysis of the realisation of requests in three European linguacultures - British English, Spanish, and Romanian - as expressed in weekly press releases during the Covid-19 pandemic. A comparative study that looks into the Request Speech Act, more precisely into its various forms of expression and its conventional realisation patterns, was conducted according to a cross-cultural pragmatic analysis framework. The conclusive observations underline the fact that each linguaculture constructs a culture-bound pattern for the realisation of the Request Speech Act, despite certain similarities explicable due to common origins or global linguistic influences.
Journal: Synergy
- Issue Year: 19/2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 210-225
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English