Speech acts of agreement / disagreement in English business-discourse: functional and structural specifics.
Journal Title: Львівський філологічний часопис - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
The article focuses on the problem of functional and structural peculiarities of the agreement and disagreement speech act in English dialogical business-discourse. The author argues that these speech acts are closely connected with the initial part of the discourse (which is structurally the first-pair part of the adjacency pair), and it is this part that determines their functional and structural specifics. On the other hand, the functions and structure of agreement / disagreement speech acts is greatly influenced by the pragmatics of the discourse – its regulating, conventional nature alongside with its dialogical character. Based on the results of experimental study, the author determines the types of the first-pair and the second-pair parts relationship, that is speech act of agreement / disagreement and the initial utterance. Accordingly, three types of reaction were found out – agreement / disagreement to perform some action, agreement / disagreement concerning some judgment and verifying / declining the factual information. It was proved in the course of study that agreement / disagreement may arise in the discourse as a reaction to a previous part directly, to a previous part interrupted by another part and to a whole block (sequence of parts). Structural specifics of the speech act of agreement differs in quantitative terms form that of disagreement which may be explained by the desire to eliminate the negative influence of disagreement and to maintain cooperative business communication.
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А. А. Юмрукуз
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