Rudyk I. Communicative-pragmatic types of utterances expressing agreement

Object of research: utterances of agreement / disagreement in modern English. Purpose of research: to expose and describe all the communicative and pragmatic types of utterances, recognizing or opposing initial assessments. Methods of research: direct observation and description, elements of contextual analysis, pragmatic analysis. New theoretical results: utterances expressing agreement / disagreement are defined and examined as cases of a specific speech act, which is a definite contribution to the speech act theory. Pragmatic types of utterances realizing the speech act of agreement / disagreement are rearranged. Classification of means of realizing the speech act of agreement / disagreement, including both recurrent and occasional structures, is developed. Agreement / disagreement as a speech act is determined by the main speech act factors, the factor of speaker's communicative intentions in particular.