THE CATEGORY OF PERSUASIVENESS IN ORAL SPEECH OF MODERN RUSSIAN NATIVE SPEAKERS

THE CATEGORY OF PERSUASIVENESS IN ORAL SPEECH OF MODERN RUSSIAN NATIVE SPEAKERS

Author:  E.А. Berezovskaya

Affiliation:  Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Abstract: 
The subject of the article is the persuasiveness. The author lists the known means of expression of the speaker rated as unreliable statements described in the literature. Then the author describes some other means having the same function, such as adjectives and adverbs with the particle not, words pretty and enough, adverb practically, adjective some, the use of “unresultful” verbs instead of “resultful”. In conclusion, the author notes that these funds could be used deliberately as part of a specific speech strategy.

Keywords:  subjective modality, persuasiveness, Russian language

Pages:  594-596