MITIGATION STRATEGIES OF PROMISE AND REQUEST IN ENGLISH FICTIONAL DISCOURSE release_iqumhxczfbdvblnqs277fn72fm

by Yuliia Dede

Published in Мова by Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University.

2022   Issue 37, p84-89

Abstract

The aim of the study is a contextual and interpretive analysis of mitigation strategies of request and promise which are followed up in the personage speech in English fictional discourse. The subject of the article is establishing of the speech means that implement the mitigation strategies (namely, mitigation of promise and mitigation of request), taking into account the aspect of communication situation on the samples from English fictional discourse. The findings of the research illustrate how the outlined strategies (mitigation of promise and mitigation of request) are manifested in English fictional discourse. The results show that the strategy of request is mostly realized by the tactics of categoricalness reduction. The tactics of categoricalness reduction is determined by the speaker's desire to make interlocutor perform / not perform a certain action. The mitigation strategy of promise is realized by the apology tactics and the tactics of categoricalness reduction which allow the speaker to restore harmony with the listener.
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