Speech acts and speech genres: the case of the compliment
... 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 act of compliment. When considering a compliment as an independent act, the concepts of 'speech act' and 'speech genre' serve as synonyms. When a compliment is part of a complex utterance ...
Initiative as a type of document
... parameters, such as "communication subjects" ("sender" and "receiver"), "function," "information," "modality," and "structure," are characterized.
documentary text, initiative, speech genre model, genre elements, speech text organization
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10.5922/pikbfu-2023-3-1
