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Speech Genres

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Kotorova E. G. The speech behavior pattern of «request» in Russian and German: a contrastive study. Speech Genres, 2016, no. 1(13), pp. 65-77. DOI: 10.18500/2311-0740-2016-1-13-65-77

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Russian
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Studies of individual genres
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Article
UDC: 
811.161.1’27+811.112.2’27
DOI: 
10.18500/2311-0740-2016-1-13-65-77
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WLURKJ

The speech behavior pattern of «request» in Russian and German: a contrastive study

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Kotorova Elizaveta Georgievna, University of Zielona Gоra
Abstract: 

The paper presents the analysis of the speech behavior pattern of REQUEST in Russian and German. In the first part of paper the illocution of REQUEST is defined in terms of Natural Semantic Metalanguage. The contrastive research is carried out from three different angles. Firstly, from the structural viewpoint, main language patterns of the realization of REQUEST are described. Secondly, from the pragmatic viewpoint, it is considered whether and how the situations in which Germans and Russians express REQUEST are different. It is shown that the difference between symmetric and asymmetric REQUEST, as well as between big and small REQUEST proves to be very important for the Russian-German comparison. And thirdly, the possibilities of expressing REQUEST in Russian and German are described using the method of communicative-pragmatic field. The peculiarities of field organization in these languages are revealed. The study is based on the existing corpora of the German and the Russian.

Key words: 
speech behavior
request
intercultural communication
contrastive linguistics
Russian
German
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Received: 
01.07.2015
Accepted: 
15.11.2015
Published: 
19.07.2016