Ponomarenko O. Speech Acts of Threatening in Modern English Dialogical Discourse: Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspect

The paper focuses on the speech act (SA) of threatening in modern English dialogical discourse by verbal and non-verbal means. The subject of the study is the cognitive, linguopragmatic and pragmatic-discoursive characteristics of the realization of the SA of threatening in modern English dialogical discourse. The purpose of the study is to establish the cognitive, linguopragmatic, and pragmatic-discoursive features of the SA of threatening realisation in modern English dialogical discourse. The major scientific methods are the principles of discoursive pragmalinguistics, which are involved in the cognitive-discursive linguistic paradigm and are characterized by focusing on communicative, linguocognitive, strategic, sociolinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects. The scientific novelty of the study is that for the first time the hybrid illocutionary status of the SA of threatening was substantiated in the native linguistics; its types are distinguished by the criterion of ways and means of expression in modern English dialogical discourse; its perlocutive and strategic features, types of reactions to it and the role of the social status of the speakers in its implementation are established. The theoretical significance of the dissertation research is determined by the contribution it makes to pragmalinguistics, discourse, sociolinguistics and linguoconflictology. The results contribute to the deepening of the theory of speech acts, the theory of implicatures, the theory of discoursive strategies and the theory of non-verbal communication. The practical value of the obtained results and conclusions lies in the possibility of their use in teaching courses of theoretical grammar in English ("Pragmatics of the sentence"); special courses in Pragmalinguistics, Pragmatic Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Discourse and Linguoconflictology, as well as in the process of writing research papers of different levels.