COMPARATIVE COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC AND LINGUOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN CHILDREN’S SPEECH IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK
Keywords:
children’s speech, speech act, locutionary act, illocutionary act, perlocutionary act, communicative situation, pragmatic context, communicative competence, speech experience, intonation, address forms.Abstract
This thesis examines the communicative function and pragmatic content of speech acts in the development of children’s speech in English and Uzbek. The main purpose of the study is to identify the specific features of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts used by children in different communicative situations. The study analyzes the influence of the child’s communicative intention, the interlocutor’s social status, the communicative situation, and context on the choice of speech acts. It also demonstrates the role of address forms, modal units, repetitions, intonation, and other pragmatic devices in shaping communicative meaning in children’s interaction. The findings indicate that as children’s speech experience and communicative competence develop, their strategies for using speech acts also become more complex. In conclusion, the comparative study of speech acts in children’s speech provides a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying the formation of communicative behavior in the two languages.
