УКРАЇНСЬКІ ПАРЕМІЇ ЯК МОВЛЕННЄВІ АКТИ
UKRAINIAN PROVERBS AS SPEECH ACTS

Summary/Abstract: Proverbs are fixed linguistic symbols reproduced by the speaker, which are characterizedby a communicative purpose, given by the collective addressee – by a folk. They are purposeful speech actions, speech acts of which prompt to study the peculiarities of their pragmatics. Thepresence of independent illocutionary forces in proverbs transforms them into speech acts, which isalso evidence of the discursive nature of proverbial semiosis. Depending on the intention, proverbstatements can take on the semantic status of affirmation, ascertaining, promise, warning, threat,order, requirement, advice, еvaluation etc. It also singles out pragmatically shaped features of theUkrainian paremia possessing genuine illocution for such speech acts as representatives, directives,or expressives. The thesis reveals the indirect speech acts in the Ukrainian paremia stock that arecharacterized by imbalance between illocution and illocutionary force.

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