PRAGMALINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF SPEECH ACTS EXPRESSING QUESTION-ANSWER IN THE COMMUNICATIVE MODEL OF BUSINESS INTERVIEWS

Abstract

The given article studies speech acts expressing questions and answers in business interviews in the English language. A business interview is considered as a combination of locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary acts, which emphasize the communicative purpose and intention of the interlocutors, as well as the influence of businessmen on the further choice and actions of the audience. The thorough analysis of speech acts shows that perlocution is of key importance in the question-answer speech sequence in business interviews. Our study identifies the most common speech acts in the discourse of a business interview, which are used as a means of achieving the desired perlocutionary effect. The perlocutionary effect refers to consumers’ thoughts, emotions, opinions, choices, and post-communicative behavior resulting from a businessman’s discourse.