Matyukhina Y. The development of the phatic metacommunication system in the English discourse of the 16th-20th cc.

The object of the research is the English phatic metadiscourse as realized in phatic metacommunication, its system and structure, communicative strategies. The aim of the research is a study of pragmatic features of phatic metacommunication system and regularities of its historical variation in the English discourse of the XVI-XX cc. The methods of the research are discourse analysis, the theory of speech acts. Theoretical results and novelty: a specialized complex analyses of the development of the phatic metacommunication system in the English discourse is realized, the essence of phatic metadiscourse is determined, its types are singled out, the structure of the discourse and its units, diachronic constant and variable variants of its pragmatic system are described, discourse politeness strategies are determined and elucidated in the XVI-XX cc., the status of phatic metacommunicative speech acts, their pragmatic-semantic types and features in diachrony and synchrony are determined. Practical results: teaching theoretical grammar, the history of the English language, oral practice, stylistics. The sphere of application: historical linguistic pragmatics, discourse studies.