SPEECH ACT STRATEGIES IN DISCOURSE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS

Abstract

This article deals with the question about the significance of pragmatic knowledge for foreign language learners. For successful intercultural communication the participants should have pragmatic knowledge including the knowledge about the structure and the strategies of speech acts, the appropriate context usage of language resources, the knowledge about the strategies for sustaining harmonic relations. For the purpose of analyzing the speech act strategies used in the speech behavior of the Russian learners of English a linguistic experiment was carried out. The results of the experiment revealed that the Russian learners of English used speech act strategies in a different way in comparison with the native speakers. The methodology described in the article allows to arrange a complex analysis of speech act strategies of foreign language learners.

Keywords

• a speech act
• pragmatic knowledge
• intercultural communication
• речевой акт
• прагматические знания
• межкультурная коммуникация