Functional-pragmatic characteristics of modern English poetry
Functional-pragmatic characteristics of modern English poetry The article presents an attempt to analvse functional-pragmatic features of indirect speech acts in compositions of modern English and American poets. The authors regard speech acts in poems, finding the percentage ratio of their different types. The object of the article consists in determination of prevalent tendencies to directness / figurativeness in English poetry of the XXI<sup>th</sup> century.