DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK NEWS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY AND TRANSLATION PROBLEMS
Keywords:
Directive speech acts, commands and appeals, news discourseAbstract
Directive speech acts – commands and appeals – are a vital component of news discourse, shaping how information prompts action or compliance. This thesis presents a comparative analysis of how directives are expressed in English and Uzbek news. Drawing on real news examples and speech act theory, it examines the linguistic forms, illocutionary force, perlocutionary effects, and cultural-contextual variations of directives in media. The analysis finds that English and Uzbek news share core directive strategies (such as urging or ordering), but differ in typical wording and level of directness due to cultural and linguistic norms.
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