THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL AND PRAGMATIC FACTORS ON AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN SPEAKERS’ CHOICE OF MEANS EXPRESSING PRE-SEQUENCED ADVICE
The article сontains the analysis of advisory verbal means used by the representatives of Russian and American socio-cultures through the social pragmatic factors of social status, age and social distance between communicators. The results of the research show that Russian speakers use imperatives when there are null, official or inofficial relationships between the interlocutors who may have any social status and be of any age. In contrast to that American speakers use imperatives if they give advice to a person who is of the same or lower status and is of the same age or younger. In case the advice is given to a person who is of higher status and older, American speakers prefer assertives.
Keywords: contrastive pragmatics, socio-pragmatic factors, directive speech acts, pre-sequenced advice, performative utterances
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Issue: 3, 2011
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: Topical Problems of Germanic Philology
Pages: 124 — 129
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