Klochko L. Praise Utteranceas in a Communicative Activity Based Paradigm of Interaction (on the material of Modern English)

The object of the research is praise utterances in contemporary British and American discourse. The aim of the research is a system study of praise utterances as specific speech acts characterized by a complex of cognitive, communicative, pragmatic, social-cultural, verbal and non-verbal dimensions. The methods of the research are speechact, conceptual-situational, frame, ethnopragmatic, functional-semantic analysys. Theoretical results and novelty: praise utterances are defined as the specific kind of speech activity within communicative paradigm; the pragmatic status of praise utterances as polyillocutionary speech acts are determined; direct and indirect praise utterances are studied; typical features of interactional frames are described. Practical results: teaching lexicology, stylistics. The sphere of application: lexicology and lexicography.