PERFORMATIVE PARADIGM OF GRATITUDE UTTERANCES (ON THE SAMPLES OF ENGLISH LITERARY DISCOURSE)
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 27
Abstract
The main aim of the present article is to describe the performative paradigm of gratitude utterances in English literary discourse. The object of the research is English literary role-played discourse. The subject of the study is gratitude speech act. The paper deals with the analysis of the notion «performative» and properties of performative expressions. Besides, it includes descriptions of such notions as «sematic performative» and «communicative-semantic group». Moreover, the communicative-semantic group of English expressions with the intentional meaning and illocutionary function of gratitude has been identifi ed and the patterns realizing them have been singled out. The diff erence between explicit and implicit performatives has been established as well. All the above mentioned terms have been applied to gratitude speech act. Conclusions. Gratitude speech act is to be regarded as a performative speech act. The formulae of its expression include I thank you, Thank you and Thanks. Thank you and Thanks are incomplete elliptical sentences that naturally lack deictic actants which characteristic of spoken language. Other means of expressing gratitude form a communicative-semantic group. It includes both direct and indirect conventional semantic performatives of gratitude. The intention of the latter is easily guessed by the addressee under certain extralinguistic circumstances. Practical value of the research is a possibility to use the theoretical points of the carried out research during the lectures and seminars devoted to the problems of Speech act theory.
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I. A. Kivenko
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