Sprechakte und ihre Ausdrucksformen im Deutschen und Ungarischen

This article is a result of my research conducted within the framework of the German-Hungarian contrastive grammar project (dukg) initiated by the Institute of German Studies at the University of Debrecen. It aims to present the German and Hungarian speech acts and its forms of linguistic expression taking example sentences from “real life” – relying on eminent members of the ordinary language philosophy like Austin and Searle, and on the grammar conception of the German linguist Ulrich Engel. The comparison within this framework allows the detection of parallelisms and contrasts between the two languages and it helps in preventing German-Hungarian interferences.