THE PRAGMATIC ASPECT OF FUNCTIONING UTTERANCES-REFUSALS IN THE MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article considers functioning of explicit and implicit utterances-refusals in the structure of the fictional text. The frequent use of refusals provides the necessity to form the skill how to correctly recognize the pragmatic intention of the interlocutor. One of the means to determine a refusal in live communication is the communicative-pragmatic structure of an utterance considering the context of a communicative situation and the common apperceptive base of communicators. On the basis of the methods of structural, communicative and pragmatic analysis in the work pointed out are the means of expression of explicit refusals, which can be realized in any communicative sentence forms – declarative, interrogative and imperative. The implicit type of a refusal hides a big layer of information which is implied by the author of a refusal as well as by the interlocutor. The research proves that the use of implicit refusals is a feature of the modern English language, which is vividly revealed in fiction literature.