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The article examines the concept of the rhetorical question, which — quite surprisingly — is still not part of the standard and widely recognized inventory of linguistic categories, and the term ‘rhetorical question’ is rarely used in linguistic studies. At the same time, the ex­pres­sion ‘rhetorical ...

... have regular expression in language. Such meanings are 1) the illocutionary goal (illocutionary force) of an utterance, 2) the illocu­tio­nary function of a component of an utterance (theme and rheme of a statement, the known and the unknown of a question), 3) contrast and emphasis, and 4) the meaning of complete­ness/incompleteness of a speech act as a component of coherent discourse. It is shown that prosody is the main means of expressing pragmatic meanings in the languages of the world, and ...

The article deals with the evolution of the special question in the English language of the 10th—16th centuries. The study is conducted using examples from three versions of the Gospel of John — the Wessex Gospels of the late 10th century, the Gospel of the Wycliffe Bible (the end of the 14th century) ...

... avoid infringing on the private space of their interlocutor. Moreover, ideas about the boundaries of private space and tact are among the most significant elements in describing a national communicative culture. This study focuses on the tactless question as a typical way of violating private space boundaries. The survey questionnaire was based on interviewee behaviour observations, with one interviewee labelling the interviewer's questions tactless or indecent. It was established that the presence ...

The author considers the features of rhetorical question as an explicator of modal semantics in the novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The article identifies the scope of objective modality and subjective modality meanings of rhetorical question and addresses its text-forming function....

The article is devoted to the questions "Who am I? What am I?", which have been actively spreading in the Russian language since the end of the 18th — beginning of the 19th century, both in poetry and prose. As a linguistic means of self-presentation and self-iden­tification,...

... Fedoseeva, E. N., 2009. Dialogicheskaya osnova russkoi liriki pervoi treti XIX veka [Dia­logic basis of Russian lyrics in the first third of the 19th century]. PhD thesis. Mos­cow (in Russ.). Golubeva-Monatkina, N. I., 1991. Classification study of questions and answers of dialogical speech. Voprosy Jazykoznanija [Topics in the study of language], 1, pp. 125—134 (in Russ.). Golubeva-Monatkina, N. I., 2004. Voprosy i otvety dialogicheskoi rechi. Klassifikat­sion­noe issledovanie [Questions and ...

... unknown documents of the Soviet consulate in Königsberg retrieved from the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, the author analyses relations between the USSR and Germany in 1925—1930. The author focuses on the role of the “Polish question”, which largely affected the nature of bilateral relations. The consulate documents indicate that Soviet diplomacy aspired to exploit the differences between Poland and Germany over a wide range of issues (the geopolitical situation of East ...

... works of N. V. Gogol, A. Averchenko, and I. Ilf and Ye. Petrov help consider the specific functional features of the microfield of interrogatively imperative modality in a literary text. The author establishes the structure-content correlation of the question and imperative within the given microfield and identifies the most regular means of expression of its specific meanings. 1. Бабенко Л. Г., Васильев И. Е., Казарин Ю. Б. Лингвистический анализ ...

... Министерство здравоохранения Калининградской области : [офиц. сайт]. URL: infomed39.ru (дата обращения: 19.09.2019). Zadorkina Т. G., Golikov V. Е. A level of being informed of population on questions of diabetes mellitus is basis of prophylaxis of disease 61-68