Illocutive Features of Deontic Utterance
The paper analyzes the factors determining the illocutionary features of deontic utterances, while combining a broad pragmatic approach with the traditional semantic analysis. The dependence of the illocutionary structure of the deontic utterance on its linguistic and extra-linguistic components is revealed while identifying the role of each of the components in the formation of the pragmatic meaning of the modal utterance. It is established which semantic and structural components of the deontic construction and to what extent influence its illocutionary semantics. The paper also describes pragmatic and semantic models of deontic utterances and the mechanism of the formation of their pragmatic semantics.