Illocutive types of performative utterances in the German dialogical discourse

Abstract

The article is devoted to performative speech acts in the German dialogical discurse. On the basic of differentiation of proper performative utterances and metacommunicative-performative utterances it was determines their illocutive types. The article finds out proper performative utterances demonstrated illocutive and perlocutive specifics that are defined with the realized illocutive act. Metacommunicative-performative utterances are related to the phatic illocutive type, the essence of that is speakers itention to keep a communicative contact with an addressee.