Features of expressing directive speech acts of advice, request and order in the form of imperative mood (on the material of modern Russian drama)

this article analyses the speech acts of advice, request and order, compares them and identifies the differentiating features: hierarchical relations between speaker and hearer, beneficiary, right to refuse, consequences of refusal to perform, which allows us to identify the differences between them. It is noted that all three speech acts are subclasses of imperative speech acts, so they can be expressed in the form of imperative inclination. The characteristics of certain lexical items and/or particles of each speech act are analysed when they are expressed using the imperative mood. It is concluded that in order to judge the category of a particular speech act, it is necessary to evaluate it in connection with a specific context, taking into account the differentiating features, certain lexical means, particles.

speech act theory, advice, request, order, imperative inclination