Abstract:The article is devoted to the research of the emotive function of interrogative sentences in direct character's speech in the artistic text based on the novel "Message from Nam" by American writer Danielle Steel. The aim of the article is to determine the factors that influence the expression of the emotive function, which the interrogative sentence performs in the direct character's speech.The research material is 266 interrogative sentences from the direct speech of the protagonist of the novel "Message from… Show more
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