Factors Shaping The Pragmatic Meaning Of Interrogative Sentences: The Denotative And Pragmatic Meanings Of Interrogative Syntax

The paper surveys theoretical approaches to the sentence as a multi-layered linguistic unit and focuses on how interrogative forms acquire pragmatic meanings beyond their denotative content. Drawing on structural, generative, logical-semantic and pragmatic traditions (Barhudarov, Arutyunova, Chafe, Chomsky, Fillmore, Leech, Searle, Grice, et al.), it argues that sentence meaning comprises a proposition and a pragmatic component shaped by speaker intention, context, intonation and lexical-syntactic cues. It details how primary communicative types (declarative, imperative, interrogative) interact with modality and polarity, how indirect speech acts arise, and how declaratives may function as negation or request through functional transposition. The study systematizes factors that form pragmatic meaning in interrogatives and related constructions and illustrates them with English and Uzbek/Russian-context examples.