INDIRECT SPEECH ACTS IN THE ENGLISH AND ARMENIAN LANGUAGES

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the study of indirect speech acts in modern English discourse and across different cultures. An attempt has also been made to understand how these constructions are translated into Russian and Armenian. The basis of a speech act is the speaker’s intention to influence the hearer in a desired way and this intention can be manifested or latent. Indirect speech acts are acts that contain the illocutionary force indicators for one kind of illocutionary act but perform another type of illocutionary act.