Yarkho A. Communicative Strategy of Uncertainty in Contemporary English Dialogical Discourse

The object of the research is the communicative strategy of uncertainty in contemporary English dialogical discourse. The aim of the research is a complex description of the realization of uncertainty strategy in discourse within the framework of cognitive-pragmatic, pragma-discoursive and sociolinguistic approaches. The methods of the research are methods of contextual-situational, speech act, sociolinguistic, quantitative-qualitative correlational analyses, discourse analysis. Theoretical results and novelty: for the first time a complex analysis of uncertainty communicative strategy in discourse at language, cognitive-pragmatic and sociolinguistic levels is performed, the three-level cognitive-pragmatic model of its realization in discourse is constructed, the phenomena of uncertainty as a speech strategy, local strategy and global strategy are differentiated, language means of uncertainty expression and its local sub-strategies are systematized, cognitive-pragmatic sub-systems of uncertainty and its functional-pragmatic varieties with sets of pragmatic functions are established, its polyfunctional nature is proved, its social variation in discourse is analyzed. Practical results: the usage in lecture courses in theoretical grammar of English, the basics of speech communication theory, in special courses in linguo- and sociopragmatics, theory of cross-cultural communication. The sphere of application: linguopragmatics and sociopragmatics.