Indirect imperative utterances as a distinctive attribute of the language of novels by Dan Brown

Abstract

In the article there is the research of peculiarities of the structural, lexical and pragmatic peculiarities of indirect imperative utterances of the modern English language on the example of novels by Dan Brown. It has been defined that imperative meaning of indirect imperative acts can be expressed in the special linguistically form and with the help of the pragmatic factors of creation of their meaning. The study has proven structural and semantic complexity and variability of indirect speech acts with an imperative meaning in the texts of the novels by Dan Brown; it has also shown that structures like this enhance the emotionality of an utterance in that way creating convincing motivation and increasing the allocator force of a speech act.