Tag: Pragmatics

Nikolay Paskalev Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Abstract The present study is an attempt to systematically describe compliments in modern Bulgarian language. In this regard, the scope of the category of compliment is first outlined, as by means of a set of functional-semantic and pragmatic differential features, compliments are distinguished from speech […]

Marina Dzhonova Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Abstract The article treats the cases in spoken Bulgarian language where the speaker uses the yes/no questions as indirect directives. In terms of Brown and Levinson (1990) those speech acts are an off record politeness strategy. The pragmatic factors that determine the use of these indirect speech acts […]