Communicative Tactics of Positive Emotional Impact in English Fictional Detective Discourse

Abstract

The paper documents several key contributions made by linguists to the strategic aspect of communication, discourse studies, theory of emotions, and speech impact. The paper identifies and analyses the communicative tactics manifesting the strategy of emotional impact in modern English fictional detective discourse. These advanced tactics have been investigated from the perspective of the lexical, morphological and syntactic characteristics that exemplify them in detective discourse.