Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages in Natural Sciences in Fergana State University, Uzbekistan
Online published on 24 September, 2020.
This article will examine the theoretical features of speech acts against the background of criticism of structural linguistics. This analysis will provide an opportunity to find gaps in the Uzbek academic discourse regarding pragmatics. This article is specifically aimed at filling this scientific gap in terms of the study of pragmatics in the framework of speech acts. We will try to reveal the essence of the theoretical features of speech acts in the framework of structural linguistics.
Speech acts, John Austin theory, Pragmatists, Structural linguistics, Pragmatic competence, Language functionality
