Soloschuk L. Interaction of Verbal and Non-Verbal Components of Communication in Modern English Discourse

The thesis focuses on specific properties of interaction of verbal and non-verbal components in the modern English discourse. The structural, semantic and pragmatic features of non-verbal components as well as their universal, ethnospecific and individually meaningful characteristics are exposed. The paper is based on the discourse methodology in analyzing communicative phenomena. The complex nature of communication is presented as the unity of verbal and non-verbal components within the anthropocentric paradigm in language and speech research. The paper provides the definition of the non-verbal communicative components and their classification. The analysis of discourse-constitutive potential of kinesic, proxemic and prosodic communicative components contributes to developing the discourse theory aimed at the investigation of communicative signs of different nature in their unity. The principles of macro- and microinteraction of verbal and non-verbal communicative components are established.