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

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
Subjects:
commissive speech acts
proposition
pragmatic meaning
politeness
semantic content
Online Access:http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_227_239_13_EN.pdf
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spelling doaj-92c2d90c3c6540d98755c870711c70902021-01-04T17:01:16ZengKonstantin Preslavsky University of ShumenStudies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT2534-952X2534-95382017-11-01222723910.46687/SILC.2017.v02.019THE USE OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN AND THEIR POLITENESS IMPLICATIONDeyana Peneva0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5321-0787Department of English Studies, Shumen University, BulgariaThe 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.http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_227_239_13_EN.pdfcommissive speech actspropositionpragmatic meaningpolitenesssemantic content
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THE USE OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN AND THEIR POLITENESS IMPLICATION
Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
commissive speech acts
proposition
pragmatic meaning
politeness
semantic content
author_facet Deyana Peneva
author_sort Deyana Peneva
title THE USE OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN AND THEIR POLITENESS IMPLICATION
title_short THE USE OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN AND THEIR POLITENESS IMPLICATION
title_full THE USE OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN AND THEIR POLITENESS IMPLICATION
title_fullStr THE USE OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN AND THEIR POLITENESS IMPLICATION
title_full_unstemmed THE USE OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN AND THEIR POLITENESS IMPLICATION
title_sort use of commissive speech acts in english and bulgarian and their politeness implication
publisher Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen
series Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
issn 2534-952X
2534-9538
publishDate 2017-11-01
description 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.
topic commissive speech acts
proposition
pragmatic meaning
politeness
semantic content
url http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_227_239_13_EN.pdf
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