SEMANTIC AND CONCEPTUAL CONTENTS OF RELATIONAL SPEECH ACT

SEMANTIC AND CONCEPTUAL CONTENTS OF RELATIONAL SPEECH ACT

Author:  Irina S. Borozdina

Affiliation:  Kursk State University

Abstract: 
The article deals with the study of the semantic and conceptual contents of speech acts: the con-nection between the extralinguistic characteristics of spatial scenes and the way of their verbalization, the linguo-cultural peculiarities of speech acts in English and Russian, the meaning of some English and Russian prepositions as means of language representation of spatial relations.

Keywords:  linguo-cognitive modeling, relational speech acts, spatial prepositions.

Pages:  100-106