COMPARATIVE PRAGMATICS OF REQUESTS AND DIRECTIVES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK FORMAL TEXTS
Keywords:
pragmatics; requests; directives; formal register; politeness strategies; speech act theory; modalityAbstract
This thesis offers a comparative pragmatic study of requests and directives in English and Uzbek formal texts. The aim is to identify differences in politeness strategies, degrees of directness, and conventionalized institutional formulas. The methodology integrates speech act theory, corpus-informed discourse analysis, and contextual interpretation. The novelty lies in a genre-sensitive model explaining how institutional authority and cultural expectations shape directive force and mitigation in formal written communication.
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