“Rhetorical question” in linguistics and speech
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 ...
Pragmatics and prosody: the analysis of oral speech as a principle of linguistic pragmatics
... 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 ...
Ideas about private space boundaries and tact in Russian communicative culture: results of a sociolinguistic experiment
... 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 ...
Units of the lexical-semantic group ‘Information search and receipt’ as personifying metaphors in Russian poetry
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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 ...
The question "Who am I? / What am I?" as a marker of identity search
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,...
The “Polish question” in Soviet-German relations in the second half of the 1920s (based on the materials of the USSR consulate in Königsberg)
... 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 ...
