WAYS OF EXPRESSING CONSENT IN CHINESE

Abstract

The article deals with the communicative meaning and structural and semantic features of the expression of consent in the Chinese language. The aim of the study is to reveal the practical side of the use of speech constructions of agreement in the Chinese language tradition. The main attention is paid to forms of consent in the Chinese language, namely speech etiquette, communicative behavior and non-verbal means of communication. It should be noted that a distinctive feature of communication in Chinese society is respect and fear of offending another interlocutor, as well as the modality of the information provided. The main content of the study is the analysis of lexical forms of expressing consent in Chinese, which revealed various emotional constructions of consent. Thus, in Chinese, the construction of agreement is based on four extralinguistic means: the presence of lexical means, grammatical-syntactic means, idiomatic and non-verbal means.