3. Direct and indirect speech in Cerma narrative

This monograph deals with the problem of functioning peculiarities of graphic expressive means and grammar means in the language of modern Russian advertising. This research work treats the advertising discourse as a composite indirect speech act. Active use of adverbial modifiers of manner — deverbatives, elliptical and indefinite personal one-member sentences is characteristic of modern advertising texts. A most distinguishing feature of a modern advertising text is a mixture of Cyrillic and Latin fonts that contributes to the manifestation of an expressive potential of the application. The monograph is aimed at students of Philology, students major in Management and Marketing, masters, postgraduates, staff of higher educational establishments and all those who are interested in the Russian language.

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Coulmas, Florian, réd. Direct and Indirect Speech. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Mouton de Gruyter, Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 31, 1986Coulmas, Florian, réd. Direct and Indirect Speech. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Mouton de Gruyter, Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 31, 1986, 370 pp.

Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes ◽

10.3138/cmlr.43.3.573 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 573-574

Author(s):

Gisèle Chevalier

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Indirect Speech

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О стилистическом потенциале несобственно-прямой речи в газетном тексте (On the Stylistic Potential of Free Indirect Speech in Newspaper Discourse)

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3473745 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Olga Blinova

Keyword(s):

Indirect Speech

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Jordanian graduate students’ complaints on Facebook: Semantic formulas and politeness

Lebende Sprachen ◽

10.1515/les-2021-0007 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 66 (1) ◽

pp. 144-165

Author(s):

Fathi Migdadi ◽

Muhammad A. Badarneh ◽

Laila Khwaylih

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Speech Acts ◽

Science And Technology ◽

The Other ◽

Indirect Speech ◽

Student Union ◽

Closed Group ◽

Indirect Speech Acts ◽

Face Saving

Abstract This study examines Jordanian graduate students' complaints posted on a Facebook closed group and directed to the representatives of Student Union at Jordan University of Science and Technology to be transferred to the officials concerned. In line with Boxer (1993b), the study considers the students' complaints to be indirect speech acts, as the addressee(s) are not the source of the offense. Using a sample of 60 institutional complaining posts, the researchers have analysed the complaints in terms of their semantic formulas, politeness functions and correlations with the gender of the complainers. The students’ complaints are classified into six semantic formulas of which the act statement element is indispensable as the complaint is stated in it. The other five formulas, ordered according to their frequency, are opener, remedy, appreciative closing, justification and others. Despite the negative affect typically involved in the complaining act, the semantic formulas identified in this study are found to signal politeness and fit into Brown and Levinson’s (1987) pool of face-saving strategies rather than face-threatening acts. Specifically, when the graduate students direct their Facebook complaints to the students' representatives, they tend to offer camaraderie with them to be encouraged to pursue the problems specified in the complainers’ posts.

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