THE DIRECTION OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN RUSSIAN SALUTATION

Abstract

The article reveals a number of new phenomena of the Russian salutation and the main tendency of its development in the last ten years. It focuses on the penetration process of the stylistically reduced versions of salutation into the publicist and the official-business functional styles. The author comes to the conclusion that the speaker in speech communication should choose the form of salutation from the position of communicative responsibility.