THE USE OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN AND THEIR POLITENESS IMPLICATION

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 als...

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Main Author: Deyana Peneva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen 2017-11-01
Series:Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
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Online Access:http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_227_239_13_EN.pdf