Condolence is part of Austin’s expressive speech act and is related to Searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. Although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. This paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among Persian and Englis...

The relevance of the study is determined by hidden turbulence such concepts often used in Russian studies as “speech activity”, acts” and “discourse”. aim work to determine genetic connections this trinity functional purpose each categories under consideration. main research means authors’ method discursive-modus analysis artistic speech. materials were dictionary definitions from explanatory d...