COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF THE GOSSIP GENRE

The aim of the study is to establish communicative and pragmatic features gossips. object phatic communication characters in English fictional discourse. scope article establishing gossip personages’ material for research includes entries from dictionaries dialogic fragments involving spreading special linguistic methods used include definition analysis applied respective nominative units; component made it possible identify a set semes, which together with use contextual-interpretive method results show that problem was identification characteristic term "gossip", as well verbalization speech. definitions lexeme “gossip” English-language distinguish its meaning certain semantic components verbalized dictionary articles. factors cause gossiping functions gossips perform social interaction have been determined characters’