Abramova I. Grammatical organization and communicative essence of the compliment in the English literary dialogue.

The thesis represents a functional and pragmatic approach to the surface structure and communicative loading of the compliment in the original English literary dialogue. The objective of the work consists in disclosing cognitive-and-communicating peculiarities of complimentary utterances in English and specifying their functional role in making the verbal communication efficient. The subject matter of the research is utterances pragmatically intended as compliments in the English literary dialogue. The scientific novelty of the thesis consists in a systematic holistic analysis of the communicative essence and functional orientation of the compliment in the English literary dialogue.