Grzecznościowe akty mowy w korespondencji W. Orkana z matką

Abstract

The article presented polite speech acts included in terminal expressions in W. Orkan’s letters to his mother, focusing on the units performing a predicate function (requests, greetings, thanks, apologies), and non-predicate ones (forms of address), whose role is to label other acts. In the data analysis, there were implemented the pragmalinguistic theory of speech acts and A. Wierzbicka’s semantic method of explication of the meaning of verbal expressions.