Commands and Their Means of Expression in English

Abstract

Speech act is an elementary unit of speech communication. The basis of a speech act is the speaker's desire to have an emotional impact on the addressee through informative or non-informative, official or unofficial communication situations. In the structure of language and in speech communication, forms of expression of emotions occupy an important place.

Means of expressing will can be an order, a prohibition, a warning, a request, advice. In the field of speech act, imperative forms play a large role, which express the will of one of the persons.

The grammatical category of verb change is represented by the verb, showing the speaker's attitude to the content of the utterance, or the attitude of the situation to the real world. The verb is a grammatical means of modal meanings. The imperative is an ancient linguistic category that is constantly being replenished with new forms. The imperative is a universal category in languages ​​of various groups and systems (e.g. English, Russian, Georgian, Hungarian, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, etc.), and in each of them it has its own characteristics.

 In all fields of human activity - be it technology or medicine, linguistics or engineering, maritime affairs or other ... there are individuals who express the will of the individual, and these people are older than others either in age or in position.

Interest in the forms expressing the will of the subject of speech is explained by the imperative meaning of expression, the diversity of its systematization and, at the same time, the expression of the concepts of the functional-semantic field of special monographic works.

The scientist A.B. Bondarenko and his scientific works on this topic are noteworthy.

The content of the thought expressed by the speaker may be understood as a possibility or desire, as an obligation or necessity.  The speaker's assessment of what he or she says, and therefore the relationship between what he or she says and reality, is called modality.