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Implicative Potential of Structural Indicators in Speech Acts of Marine Engineering communication

Lexical and syntactic structures modify the illocutionary force of the speech acts. The paper tries to determine the connection between the syntactic and lexical structures and their pragmatic goal, i.e. speech act illocution. The paper uses the basic notions of the speech act theory (Austin, 2014, Searle, 1991), Altmann’s (1993) theory of sentence types whose semantics may be determined by interpreting the speaker’s attitude, and the theory of speech act modifiers (Blum- Kulka, 2005). The authors analyzed a corpus of Marine engineering written correspondence (emails), using a bottom-up approach, to establish how structural indicators modify the implicative potential of an utterance. The research was based on a qualitative analysis, taking into consideration the specific character of written communication, whereby the structures used by the speakers to communicate will also be specific. In that sense, it was expected that the speakers rely more on language structures as opposed to extra linguistic means, and to find a more powerful role of indirect speech acts. Based on that analysis, the potential of each category will be determined for this specific corpus so as to clarify the relation of language structures and cognitive processes.

speech acts ; Marine engineering communications ; structural indicators ; illocution

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