Discursive Ambivalence in Illocutionary Speech Acts of Contemporary English Dialogic Discourse

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  • I V Grabovska ,
  • I V Mariiko ,

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https://doi.org/10.31548/philolog2020.04.115

Abstract

Abstract. The article focuses on the analysis of discursive ambivalence in illocutionary speech acts. The paper examines pragmatic properties of strategic discursive illocutionary speech acts in modern English dialogic discourse. It is suggested that discursive ambivalence is characterized by discursive intention, i. e. what discursive development the speaker wants to create by the utterance. Discursive intents may differ according to the perlocutionary intents the speaker has in mind.

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Vol. 11 No. 4 (2020): International journal of philology

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