Verbal And Non-Verbal Characteristics Of Approval Speech Act

Authors

Natalia BIGUNOVA Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University
Irina KOLEGAEVA Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v13i2.264

Keywords:

evaluation, speech act, approval, verbalized kineme, gesture, facial expression

Abstract

The paper focuses on verbal and non-verbal characteristics of approval speech act in English literary discourse. Approval evaluation object have been identified including things, ideas, facts, traditions, weather conditions, events, pieces of news and other phenomena that become evaluated. It has been proved that approval evaluation objects never refer to the addressee's sphere of interests and that the approval recipient and the evaluation object of approval never overlap. The article also dwells on illocutionary aims pursued by approval speech act addressers and the perlocutionary effect of approval speech act. The main part of the paper considers lexical, morphological, syntactic, and stylistic means applied by the personages of literary fictional discourse to express approval of a certain object. Finally, non-verbal means manifesting approval have been identified. It has been found out that in literary fictional discourse it is the verbalized kinemes that specify the emotional state of the approval addresser and signal whether the approving utterance is sincere or not.

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Author Biographies

Natalia BIGUNOVA, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University

(Dr. of Science in Philology) is Professor at the Chair of Theoretical and Applied Phonetics of the English Language, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include pragmatics, cognitive semantics, axiology, discourse studies, phonostylistics. Bigunova is the author of a monograph and 80 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Positive Evaluation: From Cognitive Judgment to Communicative Utterance”, “Cognitive Pragmatic Regularities in Communicative Manifestation of Positive Evaluation”, “Illocutionary Aims and Perlocutionary Effect of Praise and Compliment Speech Acts in Modern English Literary Discourse”, “Paraverbal Means Expressing Positive Evaluation in English Film Discourse”.

Irina KOLEGAEVA, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University

(Dr. of Science in Philology, Prof.) is the head of the Chair of Lexicology and Stylistics of the English Language, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University Odesa, Ukraine; Editor in Chief of Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology. Her areas of interest include functional communicative text stylistics, discourse studies, the theory of intertextuality, cognitive linguistics. Kolegaeva is the author of a monograph and 37 scientific articles. Recent publications: “Museum Catalogue Article: A Cognitive-Communicative Phenomenon”, “Cognition, Semiosis, Communication: The Subjects of Contemplation in the Recent 25 Years”, “Text and Megatext as Members of the Same Communicative Family”.

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2019-12-26

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BIGUNOVA, N., & KOLEGAEVA, I. (2019). Verbal And Non-Verbal Characteristics Of Approval Speech Act. WISDOM, 13(2), 7–22. https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v13i2.264

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