Kosenko Ju. V. Functioning of final metakomunikative blocks in the modern Еnglish discource

Abstract

In interaction closing speech contact is a final phase of dialogue. The phase of closing of speech contact is a ritual speech action. It has a set of stereotypical units of the language, specially intended to mark final border of the communication in time and space. Such indicators of closing up dialogue we name metacommunicative blocks of closing speech contact. In daily interaction metacommunicative blocks of closing speech contact are inherent in a ritual situation of farewell. The article focuses on the closing metacommunicative statements at a final stage of speech interaction in English belles-lettres dialogue farewell discourse. Universal characteristics, speech statements in English phatic metacommunication are considered. Attention is being paid to conversational closing statements as harmonious interaction to minimize the possibility of conflict. Basic purpose of a phase of closing speech contact is mitigation of the mental cruelty put on communicators by the fact of parting and consolidation of benevolent relations. closing metacommunicative statements just serve for softening, painless parting of interlocutors.