Communicative and Linguistic Characteristics of the Comic Discourse (on the Material of English-Language Belles-Lettres Works)

The article deals with the investigation of communicative and linguistic features comic discourse on basis English-language fictional works by M. Spark, R. Dahl, K. Vonnegut Jr, I. Shaw, Carver Barry. author represents description a in terms Linguistic Pragmatics. Extra-linguistic components literary text creating actualizing, which include pragmatic characteristics, social cultural factors, psychological peculiarities, cognitive component paralinguistic supplement, are described. also provides detailed classification material belles-letters communication aforementioned writers. All characteristics within five groups, according to violation/lack/incompleteness certain qualities disclosure, distinguished. Besides, there is thorough analysis presupposition as constituent part definition. dwells interlocutors’ micro macro presuppositions introducing, absence leads non-cooperative with, predominantly, effect. results experiment show that participants’ (readers’ particularly) background knowledge helps them interpret discourse. continues study special means techniques effect producing further understanding authors’ individual styles.