silence

The article offers the analysis of the communicative potential of the silent scene as a universal phenomenon in view of the speech genre theory. A silent scene is understood as a widely spread speech genre event, during which there appears a speechless psychological effect of perceiving puzzling unexpectedness. The author analyzes structural and functional properties of a silent scene, its semantic horizons and forms of its implementation in speech and fiction.

The semantic and pragmatic potential of statements of refusal to communicate allows shedding light on the peculiarities of the phenomenon of silence, identifying its varieties, the specifics of manifestation in the Russian linguistic picture of the world and analyzing the functionality as part of a literary text.

In article functions of consent and disagreement in natural easy communication are considered. In the center of attention of the author question: whether always the consent of the interlocutor with speaking is expected whether always it contains positive effect, and disagreement – negative? Material which is given by the author of article mainly within a consolation genre, shows that quite often consent has a minus sign, and disagreement – plus. Also some general features of consent and disagreement and also silence role in their expression are considered.