The Use Of Commissive Speech Acts In English And Bulgarian And Their Politeness Implication
The Use Of Commissive Speech Acts In English And Bulgarian And Their Politeness Implication
Author(s): Deyana PenevaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, Descriptive linguistics, Philology
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: commissive speech acts; proposition; pragmatic meaning; politeness; semantic content
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on one specific performative speech act and in particular on examining the grammatical, propositional and pragmatic meaning of a basic illocutionary act which belongs to the group of commissives in comparison with its Bulgarian equivalents and namely the verb agree. The article also presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a database taken from the Bulgarian media discourse and BNC /British National Corpus/ of spoken language which is also needed to identify the tendency in the use of commissive speech acts cross-culturally which can be useful to make further interpretation especially with respect to politeness implications.
Journal: Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
- Issue Year: 2/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 227-239
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English, Bulgarian
