Експресивні мовленнєві акти у розмовній англійській мові

Abstract

Communication is a crucial part of everyday life therefore in this paper, the focus is on the usage of expressive speech acts in conversational English. It is fair to say, that one may not know that one’s speech completely consists of various speech acts. In fact, in daily-basis conversations, people tend to express their opinions, likes and dislikes very emotionally using all kinds of expressive acts. John Austin made up a Speech Act Theory that deals with utterances being words and actions that come with consequences. Further, John Searle improved Austin’s classification of speech acts hence this paper focuses on Searle’s classification of expressive speech acts. This study aims to describe the kinds and forms of expressive speech acts in the TV show “The Good Place” Session 1 episodes 1, 2 and 11. It belongs to the descriptive qualitative method.