Performative verbs of inducement as a means of expressing modal stance in English
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство) - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
Performatives provide a compelling object of study because of their compelling many-faceted nature. Not only do they express an impressively wide range of illocutionary meanings but they also convey a variety of modal meanings. Speech act verbs and performatives, in particular, have long been of intense and abiding interest to researchers which accounts for the proliferation of different theories and the abundance of investigations undertaken. However, the bulk of attention in most contemporary linguistic studies has been paid to illocutionary forces assigned to performative utterances rather than their specific modal meaning. It calls for the need to consolidate the insights into the theoretical treatment of performative verbs and analyse the functioning of verbal performative predicates on the syntagmatic axis with regard to their semantic structure, illocutionary force and modal potential. The article sets out to explore the salient features of deontic performative predicates in English in terms of their modal dimension. It deals with semantic and pragmatic contiguity of directive verbs whose invariant lexical meaning contributes to the semantic, illocutionary and modal characteristics of the respective performative utterances and speech acts. The distinction between a performative directive verb and a performative deontic predicate is discussed. Verbs with a directive illocutionary force constitute a separate functional subclass of performatives and are recognized on the basis of their ability to convey inducement which has a direct bearing on two fundamentally different categories: the category of modality (more precisely, its deontic subcategory) and the category of communicative directive. The paper aims to examine the categorical relationship between deontic modality and performativity within the framework of an explicit directive performative utterance. The findings of the study offer evidence of how deontic stance is expressed in explicit performative utterances by verbal performative predicates with a semantic component of inducement.
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Р. І. Рядська
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