Phraseological intensifiers of English economic discourse as a means of speech expression

Orlova Svetlana

A distinctive feature of economic discourse is not only the abundance of terminology, cliches, indexes, but also the use of means of speech expression, which represents in a steady need for the use of phraseological units and intensifiers. In economic discourse, phraseological intensifiers are the main pragmatic markers or signals of illocutionary force, contributing to the establishment and development of illocutionary force of speech acts that make up discourse, and functioning as a means of illocutionary semantics of discourse and a means of speech expression.

Keywords:economic discourse, phraseology, intensifier, speech expressiveness.