Linguopragmatic potential of emotive causatives

The article deals with emotive causatives in the Russian and German languages in the aspect of linguistic pragmatics. In this direction of linguistics, a speech act is considered as a unit of analysis. The main task is to identify different types of statements, and do their structural and functional analysis. The article discusses various classifications of speech acts and their foundations. The purpose of the article is to analyze speech acts where emotive causative verbs occur. As a classification criterion, we considered the illocutionary functions of speech acts and the illocutionary potential of linguistic means. The emotive causatives we analyzed are divided into two main groups: the group of positive and negative emotional modification. The linguistic pragmatic potential of emotive causatives of the first group is realized in such speech acts as requistive, suggestive, constative, commissive, behabitive, gutative, satisfactive, and expositive. The linguopragmatic potential of emotive causatives of negative emotional modification is realized in the following speech acts: requistive, suggestive, constative, commissive, behabitive, gutative, satisfactive, menasive, preventive, and expositive. In the group of positive emotive causatives, we observe the coincidence of the illocutionary function with the semantics of verbs. In the group of emotive causatives that actualize the negative modification of the psychological state in a number of speech acts, the negative semantics of verbs can contradict the illocutionary purpose of the utterance; therefore, various linguistic means are used that neutralize the negative semantics of these verbs.