Could you please close the door? VS. Zatvaraj vrata! Translation of directive speech acts from English into Serbian and from Serbian into English

Suzana Marković

Could you please close the door? VS. Zatvaraj vrata! Translation of directive speech acts from English into Serbian and from Serbian into English

Suzana Marković

Published: 27 May 2025, Last Modified: 27 May 2025ICLC-11 OralEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0

Keywords: directive speech acts, English, Serbian, translation, culture

TL;DR: This small-scale study presents a qualitative analysis of the realization of directive speech acts and their translations between English and Serbian, highlighting subtle differences arising from cultural backgrounds and morphosyntactic mismatches.

Submission Number: 64

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