Говорни чин упозорења у текстовима о здрављу на српском и енглеском језику кроз теорију учтивости: контрастивна анализа
THE SPEECH ACT OF WARNING IN HEALTH-RELATED TEXTS IN SERBIAN AND ENGLISH THROUGH THE LENS OF POLITENESS THEORY: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: This research aims to determine how the speech act of warning can be expressed in health-related texts from the genre of popular science in Serbian and English. Besides the syntactic forms, the aim is to also determine the politeness strategies used in the warning speech acts, thus comparing and contrasting the two languages. The cultural factors that may affect the use of the warning speech act in both languages are considered as well. The results show that there are no significant differences between the two languages except for the majority of warnings in Serbian being given directly, while, in English, the negative strategy is the most dominant one. The employed syntactic forms and sub-categories of politeness strategies differ minimally in the two languages.

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