LANGUAGE EXECUTION OF SPEECH ACT OF THREAT (ON THE BASIS OF ENGLISH POLITICAL DISCOURSE)
Epshtein O. V.
Orenburg State Pedagogical University Department of English Philology
Abstract. The review of the existing points of view on the differentiation of direct and indirect speech acts is given, and also the problem of the performative explication of speech acts of threat is considered in the article. Speech act of threat is explicated by the means of the form of other kinds of speech acts keeping its own communicative intention and semantic contents.
Key words and phrases: прямые и косвенные речевые акты, перформативная экспликация, речевые акты угрозы, коммуникативная интенция, семантическое содержание, direct and indirect speech acts, performative explication, speech acts of threat, communicative intention, semantic contents
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