SPEECH MODELS OF REQUEST REALIZATION IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

A request is one of the most pervasive and widespread speech genres in various types of interpersonal and public discourses. Being an expression of the addressee’s goal-setting, it differs from a demand in that it contains a certain degree of voluntariness of cooperation for the addressee. At the same time, the manifestation of the admissibility of this or that degree of voluntariness is an unexplored issue, which became the basis for this study. Using a comprehensive methodology, including descriptive approach, questionnaires, analysis of utterance structure and comparative approach, it is possible to classify speech patterns of request realization in Russian, as well as to reveal the relationship between the speech pattern and the degree of voluntariness admissibility of following the addressee’s goal-setting on the part of the addressee.