INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE AS A GRAMMATIC WAY OF EXPRESSING AN INDIRECT REQUEST (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES)
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The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the use and interpretation of indirect speech acts with the intention of request in the Chinese and Russian linguistic and cognitive space based on the consideration of the most frequency form of its expressing – an interrogative sentence. As a result of the study the linguistic means of implementing the indirect speech act of request in the form of question were differentiated in both languages. Based on the analysis of the research material, it is shown that, despite the fact that both in Chinese and in Russian the most common indirect way of expressing request is an interrogative sentence, the number of ways of expressing indirect speech acts of request in the form of question in the Russian linguistic and cultural space much wider and more diverse rather than in the Chinese linguistic and cognitive space. In addition, the reasons for choosing an indirect form of expressing request in the Chinese and Russian social and cultural space are described.
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