PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF UNITS EXPRESSING CURSES
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Key words: anathema, speech acts, pragmatics, levels, locution, illocution, perlocution, curse words, etymology, origin, meaning.Abstract
This article gives information about main focus of pragmatics, levels of speech acts such as declaratives, commissives, expressives, representatives and directives and linguists views about these terms. Besides, differences between locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary speech acts are explained after which some information is presented about curse words with examples extracted from Uzbek literary works and phraseological units defining anathema in English.
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