Functional and semantic aspects of threat in requestive speech acts (based on the Soviet and Russian feature films)
Mass cinematography reflects the cultural and mental state of any nation as well as the state of its language. Based on the analysis of the fragments of the Soviet and contemporary Russian films, the author determines the role and purpose of the requestive threat as a speech act, and identifies the composition and role of various components of requestive threat speech acts as a type. Requestive speech acts are a means of indirectly derived expression of a corresponding meaning.
1. Крючкова ...
Speech and gesture regulations in expressing vague reference in expository dialogue
... regulations that constrain the distribution and alignment of speech cues and gestures. First, the prevalence of approximators is observed, indicating that a higher input of predication expresses vague reference. Second, the prevalence of placeholders in the Request communicative move was found, accounting for the Request’s role in both initiating a new act and completing the previous one by renaming the vague referent. Third, a more frequent use of pragmatic gestures with approximators was identified, ...
Solidarity strategies in adolescent communication
... solidarity strategies: teasing and group jokes, where participants add details to exaggerate the comic effect; ritual insults, in particular making up nicknames; synchronized speech pacing, even leading to creating spontaneous poetry. In the case of a request, the following politeness strategies and means are noted: repetition of words, both literal and with variations; increasing the volume and varying the speech rate, which express the common emotional state; decreasing the imposition with lexical ...
Emotive politeness in face-threatening speech acts: cross-cultural perspectives
... refusal through emotional support to the addressee in English and Russian academic digital communication and to trace their culture-specific variability. The material consists of authentic Russian and English emails that contain a refusal to a request to write a review of an article and a refusal to an invitation to contribute to a special issue of a journal. The study focuses on the structure of refusal, the ways it is performed, supporting moves that aim to mitigate its threat, as well ...
Prospects of the digital storytelling method in foreign language education for young generations
... the development of the internet on the psychology and lifestyle of Generation Z and Generation Alpha, as well as the impact of their psychological characteristics on their educational demands. Particular attention is given to analyzing the educational requests of these generations and assessing the effectiveness of the storytelling method and its digital version in the process of teaching foreign languages to modern youth. As part of a theoretical study on the advantages and prospects of this method,...
Speech acts and speech genres: the case of the compliment
... complex utterance consisting of several different speech acts, 'speech act' and 'speech genre' refer to disparate concepts. This article examines cases of compliment usage as an independent act (speech genre) and within other speech genres, such as requests, gratitude expressions, consolations and condemnations, where a compliment amplifies or mitigates the speaker's intention.
Alpatov, V. M., 2002. The problem of speech genres in the works of M. M. Bakhtin. In:
Zhanry rechi
[Genres of ...
Language indicators of confrontational speech strategies used in everyday marital discourse
... the Television" by V. S. Vysotsky served as material for observation, representing a vivid example of role lyrics.
The research established that the discreditation strategy is implemented through speech tactics of threat, accusation, reproach, request, appeals to authority, and appeals to precedent. The analysis resulted in the identification of typical linguistic indicators that shape specific confrontational speech tactics.
Zakurdaeva N.V.
confrontational speech strategy, speech tactics,...
The attitude of teachers of additional music education to inclusive education of blind and visually impaired children
... disabilities to it. A significant part of experts express their concerns regarding the provision of inclusive practice due to the lack of experience working with special children and the necessary competencies. The community of teachers of additional education request some adapted methodological support for teaching performing arts to children with different types of disabilities, taking into account both the special educational needs of such children and the specifics of musical instruments. The problems are ...
Decembrists in the novel “Journey of dilettantes” in the context of Bulat Okudzhava’s work and contemporaneity
The relevance of the topic is determined by the request of modern literary study to revise the Soviet ideological interpretations of Decembrism, as well as by the task of thorough analysis of Bulat Okudzhava’s novel “Journey of Dilettantes” (1971–1977), an iconic book of the late Soviet era....
Imperative modality as a mechanism of creating universal human values (based on Russian and English translations of biblical idioms)
... imperative modality and the ways their meanings are manifested in the semantic structure of biblical idioms. It is assumed that, in biblical idioms, the formation of universal human values is based on the imperative modality represented by suggestives, requestives, and prescriptives.
1. Ваулина С. С., Пробст Н. А. Коммуникативная функция вопросительно-побудительной модальности в газетном дискурсе // Коммуникация ...
The implementation of interrogative imperative modality in the headlines of media texts: The case of news portals
... образований в газетном заголовке // Вестник Нижегородского университета им. Н. И. Лобачевского. 2011. № 4 (1). С. 343—349.
Vasilyev S., Probst N.
modality, headline, journalistic text, requestive, request, suggestive, advice, proposal, prescriptive, order.
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Household management as seen by the federal military personnel during the American Civil War
... some important exceptions, to shift the control over their farms to their wives. Thirdly, the young Union soldiers did not participate in household economy planning. Rather they sent their wages home, gave non-imperative advice and made moderate requests.
1. Mitchell R. The Northern Soldier and His Community // Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays. Cambridge, 1990. P. 78—92.
2. Sheehan-Dean A. Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia....
Human rights in EU-Russia relations: a human rights mechanism
... Country Strategy Paper, 2007—2013. Russian Federation / European Union External Action. URL: http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/russia/docs/2007—2013_en.pdf (дата обращения: 13.03.2013).
6. Opinion № 193 (1996) on Russia’s request for membership of the Council of Europe. Parliamentary Assembly. Text adopted by the Assembly on 25 Jan. 1996 (7th sitting). Council of Europe. URL: http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/AdoptedText/ta96/EOPI193.htm (дата обращения: ...
Geography of "digital footprints" of Kaliningrad citizens in the border regions of Poland and Lithuania: results of content analysis
..., while their territorial proximity to the border did not significantly affect the dynamics of Internet search. Only five cities — Polish Gdansk, Olsztyn, Gdynia and Lithuanian Kaunas, Klaipeda, are represented in all five thematic categories of requests in the areas of cross-border interactions.
Mikhailova A.A., Hvaley D.V.
digitalization, digital space, border region, cross-border mobility, internet, content analysis, computational social science
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Linear algorithm for restoring the geological structure of the designed well for the user's access to groundwater resources
... user's point, considering the values of the filtration coefficients, levels of water occurrence and its establishment, flow rate and other parameters of real boreholes. The calculation is based on the use of data on the boreholes closest to a given user request point. The proposed algorithm can facilitate the design of water supply for small enterprises and personal users of small towns and villages in the region at the expense of groundwater resources.
1. Белоусова А. П. Региональная ...
Argumentum ad morti in the violence discourse: the semantics and pragmatics of ‘radical’ argumentation
The appeal to death is a type of argument that either explicitly or implicitly invokes human finitude. This rhetorical device contributes to the credibility of requests, wishes, etc., or blocks communication. The illocutionary power of the appeal to death is determined by the means it uses, which range from inductive generalisation and deductions to approaching the limit of this generalisation, to the threat ...
The mutual similarity of meanings and structures in a literary text
... 2009. Pragmatics and Prosody of Implicit Discourse Relations. Ph. D. Tübingen.
Prince, E., 1981. Toward a taxonomy of given-new information. In: P. Cole, ed. Radical Pragmatics. N. Y. pp. 223—256.
Ruytenbeek, N., 2017. The comprehension of indirect requests: Previous work and future directions. In: I. Depraetere and R. Salkie, eds. Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line. Springer, pp. 293—322.
Zeldowicz, G., 2016. Extraverted consciousness, introverted consciousness, and composition of lyrical ...
The functioning of interrogative hortative structures in the political discourse (based on V.V. Putin’s public speeches)
... Семиотика политического дискурса. М., 2004.
10. Чудинов А. П. Политическая лингвистика. М., 2006.
political discourse interrogative hortative modality, indirect directive speech acts, request, advice, proposition, prescriptive.
Vaulina S., Probst N.
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Human Resources of Post-war Lithuania and Their Role in the Rebuilding of Klaipeda
... the already substantial labour shortage. The attempts of the republic’s leadership to solve the problems of labour shortage through organised labour migration and labour mobilisation yielded no significant results. The appeals to the Centre with the request to send a substantial number of specialists and workers to Lithuania were heard, but a state ravaged by war did not have sufficient human resources. One of the solution was the use of labour of German prisoners of war. A network of prisoner-of-war ...