Microfield of explicit agreement in Russian President’s speech

Polyakova Tatiana Vladimirovna

The essential minimum for identification of agreement is based on the dialogical speech. Therefore the texts of recent interviews of Russian President in national and foreign mass media are provided as a source for the scientific analysis. Agreement means confirmation, approval and acceptance of your interlocutor’s words, among them V.V. Putin, journalists and politicians are introduced. In the research functional semantic field of agreement is identified and defined as system of different linguistic levels which represent the idea of agreement with its further subdivision into microfields of the second and third division levels. Using the method of functional semantic analysis functional semantic field of agreement consists of implicit and explicit microfields, and then explicit microfield is branched into discrete and indiscrete microfields of agreement. The speech and reactions of Russian President are classified on the basis of explicit to discrete agreement, i.e. in the microfields of absolute and hypothetical agreement. The main components of these microfields are modal words and modal particles. Semantic meaning of these language units illustrates various degree of agreement in real or prospective situation.

Keywords:functional semantic field, agreement, explicit, implicit, semantics, modality, interview, Putin.