FUNCTIONING OF SPEECH VERBS IN MODERN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE AND GERMAN-LANGUAGE MEDIA DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article defines the initial theoretical provisions, discusses the main views on the essence of media discourse, as well as pragmatics and its categories: propositions, illocutions, locutions, perlocutions, presuppositions, contexts. As an initial theoretical premise, the paper adopted the position that the communicative-functional features of sentences and speech acts are determined by their purposeful use for the speaker to exercise some influence on the listener, which makes it relevant to study language units in real language communication. In accordance with this, a pragmatic approach to the analysis of the facts under study comes to the fore, which involves the study of language as an activity and as a means of communication, revealing the effective, practical purpose of language units, their correlation with the behavior and activities of the speaker. The object of this work is the verbs of speech activity in German and English media discourses. The study of the pragmatic functions of sentences with verbs of speech activity is an integral part of the general pragmatic direction in the study of linguistic phenomena, which determines the relevance of the chosen topic. In the process of analyzing the verbs of speech activity, the descriptive method and the method of quantitative assessments, as well as the method of component analysis, were used. Such an integrated approach can ensure the reliability of the results obtained. The material of the study was the verbs of speaking from German and English media texts. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the appeal to the pragmatic aspect of these verbs and in the desire to more fully describe the studied verbs. The theoretical value of the study is a fairly complete analysis of the verbs of speech activity in German and English media discourses. This problem has not yet been the subject of close attention of grammarians. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the observations made in the process of analysis can be used in the practice of teaching German and English, as well as taken into account in the courses of theoretical grammar, stylistics and discourse studies.