Varieties Of Menasive Transposition In The Context Of Pre-Election Discourse
Table 1:
Functional and semantic varieties of pragmatically transposed menasives | Number of examples | Share of the total number of menasives in politicians' programs |
declarative threats | 81 | 35.37% |
warning threats | 17 | 7.42 % |
constative threats | 13 | 5.67 % |
invocatory threats | 11 | 4.80 % |
recommendation threats | 8 | 3.49 % |
threats-promises | 6 | 2.62 % |
threats-demands | 3 | 1.31 % |
TOTAL | 139 | 60.70 % |