DISCURSIVE OCCURRENCE OF THE SPEECH ACT OF GUARANTEE IN ENGLISH
Keywords:
guarantee speech act, assertive, commissiveAbstract
This article analyzes the discursive realization of the guarantee speech act in English. The guarantee speech act expresses the speaker's assumption of a high level of responsibility for his statement and the aim of instilling trust in the listener. This speech act manifests itself in different types of discourse through its own specific forms and means and performs a separate pragmatic function in each context. Although its linguistic expression differs depending on the genre and communicative situation, the semantics of expressing trust and making a commitment in its internal illocutionary content are preserved. The article analyzes the guarantee speech act in English on the example of a literary text, dialogue, political, and advertising and marketing discourses. The results of the research serve to further understand the pragmatic features of commissive speech acts in linguistics.
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