Korolov I. Communicative situation of justification: from functional, pragmatic and linguacultural perspectives in Ukrainian, Russian and English fiction of the XIXth century.

In the thesis communication is treated as a complex ethnically determined phenomenon. The research is grounded upon functional, pragmatic and cultural approaches to singling out structural features of a typical communicative situation. Presupposition is represented as an integral part of justification speech acts. Ways of verbalizing communicative strategies and tactics of justification in Ukrainian, Russian and English are contrasted. Social roles of language personality as an initiator of justification in Ukrainian, Russian and English are highlighted. Universal and specific aspects of Ukrainian, Russian and English lexical and syntactic features of justification speech acts are exposed. Non-verbal components of communicative situation of justification reflected in Ukrainian, Russian and English literary discourse are analysed.