PRAGMATIC CONDITIONS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AGGRESSIVE FUNCTION IN INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES

Abstract

Aggression in speech, typical of contemporary youth spoken language, is considered within the framework of the modern analysis revealing that interrogative sentences are an active means of aggressive expression. Pragmatic conditions under which aggressive function of interrogative sentences is actualized are various. Aggressive interrogation, targeted at suppressing the interlocutor's personality and demonstrating the speaker's significance and superiority, often suggests encouragement and is employed with the view to deliberately seizing the verbal initiative and leading positions. The given manifestations of aggression in speech are caused by general aims of contemporary youth at self-actualization, leadership and dominance.