PHILOLOGY. ASIAN STUDIES. JOURNALISM.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | LINGUISTICS | ||
| Codes UDC | 372.881.111 | Page | 131-135 |
| Title | PECULIARITIES OF SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING SITES OF CHINESE INTERNET SHOPS | ||
| Author 1 | Dobrova Tatyana E. | St. Petersburg State University 7/9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation Ph.D. in Linguistics, Associate Professor e-mail: tatyanadb@yandex.ru |
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| Summary | The article is devoted to the analysis of the speech acts collected in forty English-speaking sites of Chinese internet shops. The author draws our attention to the focuses implied in the analyzed speech acts. The main goal of the study is to reveal the main peculiarities of the focus realization in the speech acts of English advertisement in the sites of Chinese internet shops. The author has come to the conclusion that the interpersonal focus on Speaker and Addressee as well as the impersonal focus on Reality are typical for such advertisement. | ||
| Keywords | speech act, illocutionary force, Directive, Commissive, speaker�s focus, interpersonal focus, impersonal focus, advertisement discourse, internet advertisement. | ||