Communicative functions of interrogative sentences in dialogue texts

Abstract

This article discusses the problems of communicative functions of the implementation of interrogative sentences in English and Russian. The relevance of the problem is connected with the rich pragmatic fullness of these linguistic units. The problem of communicative functions of interrogative sentences was considered from the point of view of the theory of speech acts, in which they are realised. Thus, examples of interrogatives were analysed in representative, directive, commission and expressive speech acts on the basis of dialogues from the sitcom Big Bang Theory. Determining the quantitative ratio of interrogatives in the composition of different types of speech acts and comparing these statistics with the results of another study allowed the author to determine which types are most productive due to their pragmatic potential. The prospect of further research is a deeper study of the pragmatics of interrogative sentences, as well as interdisciplinary research.