PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF INTERROGATIVE STATEMENTS

This chapter explores the pragmatic features of interrogative sentences, emphasizing their functional diversity and context-dependent usage in communication. While traditionally seen as question forms intended to gather information, interrogatives also function as indirect requests, expressions of politeness, rhetorical tools, and markers of social relations. The analysis highlights how meaning is shaped by speaker intent, listener interpretation, sociocultural norms, and conversational context. Using insights from speech act theory, discourse analysis, and cross-cultural pragmatics, the study reveals that interrogatives are not merely grammatical constructs but dynamic instruments of human interaction. The chapter concludes that an effective understanding of interrogative sentences requires an integrative pragmatic approach that considers both linguistic form and communicative function.