Approval, Praise, Compliment and Flattery in Speech Act Theory

The article outlines approval, praise, compliment and flattery in terms of Speech Act Theory. The illocutionary aims of approval, praise, compliment and flattery speech acts have been differentiated.The author offers her own definitions of approval, praise, compliment and flatter as positive evaluat...

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Main Author: Н. О. Бігунова
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Odessa I. I. Mechnykov National University 2016-07-01
Series:Записки з романо-германської філології
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Online Access:http://rgnotes.onu.edu.ua/article/view/73081
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description The article outlines approval, praise, compliment and flattery in terms of Speech Act Theory. The illocutionary aims of approval, praise, compliment and flattery speech acts have been differentiated.The author offers her own definitions of approval, praise, compliment and flatter as positive evaluative speech acts.The research has been carried out on the basis of Modern English artistic Discourse.The main purpose of the paper is to report on the carried out functional-semantic analysis of positive evaluative speech acts. The subjects of this study are approval, praise, compliment and flattery illocutionary aims. The main methods of investigating the data have been the contextual interpretational method as well as the conversational analysis. They have been helpful to determine the functional-semantic peculiarities of the taken speech acts, their objects and participants and their communicative structure. The article establishes the definition of approval, praise, compliment and flattery speech acts main and secondary illocutionary aims. The achieved results have practical value, since they can be discussed within the courses of Discourse Analysis and Communication Theory.
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spelling doaj.art-50f115fa14c348a4b92eb9d802d0abbd2022-12-21T22:05:10ZdeuOdessa I. I. Mechnykov National UniversityЗаписки з романо-германської філології2307-46042518-76272016-07-0102(35)314010.18524/2307-4604.2015.2(35).7308173081Approval, Praise, Compliment and Flattery in Speech Act TheoryН. О. Бігунова0Одеський національний університет імені І.І. МечниковаThe article outlines approval, praise, compliment and flattery in terms of Speech Act Theory. The illocutionary aims of approval, praise, compliment and flattery speech acts have been differentiated.The author offers her own definitions of approval, praise, compliment and flatter as positive evaluative speech acts.The research has been carried out on the basis of Modern English artistic Discourse.The main purpose of the paper is to report on the carried out functional-semantic analysis of positive evaluative speech acts. The subjects of this study are approval, praise, compliment and flattery illocutionary aims. The main methods of investigating the data have been the contextual interpretational method as well as the conversational analysis. They have been helpful to determine the functional-semantic peculiarities of the taken speech acts, their objects and participants and their communicative structure. The article establishes the definition of approval, praise, compliment and flattery speech acts main and secondary illocutionary aims. The achieved results have practical value, since they can be discussed within the courses of Discourse Analysis and Communication Theory.http://rgnotes.onu.edu.ua/article/view/73081оцінкасхваленняпохвалакомпліментлестощімовленнєвий акт
spellingShingle Н. О. Бігунова
Approval, Praise, Compliment and Flattery in Speech Act Theory
Записки з романо-германської філології
оцінка
схвалення
похвала
комплімент
лестощі
мовленнєвий акт
title Approval, Praise, Compliment and Flattery in Speech Act Theory
title_full Approval, Praise, Compliment and Flattery in Speech Act Theory
title_fullStr Approval, Praise, Compliment and Flattery in Speech Act Theory
title_full_unstemmed Approval, Praise, Compliment and Flattery in Speech Act Theory
title_short Approval, Praise, Compliment and Flattery in Speech Act Theory
title_sort approval praise compliment and flattery in speech act theory
topic оцінка
схвалення
похвала
комплімент
лестощі
мовленнєвий акт
url http://rgnotes.onu.edu.ua/article/view/73081
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