Speech acts and speech genres: the case of the compliment
This article is devoted to the speech act of compliment, which is treated herein as expressing the speaker's attention and partiality to their interlocutor. The similarities and differences between speech acts of compliment and praise are analysed, with the characteristics of compliment linked to the gender and age of the interlocutor. Particular attention is paid to the concepts of speech act and speech genre and the applicability of these notions in analysing the speech ...
The illocutionary aims of the positive-evaluative speech acts (in English artistic discourse)
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Bigunova N. A.
evaluation, speech act, approval, praise, compliment, flattery.
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