Abstract
The article is devoted to the problem of implementation of the communicative act of refusal (CAR) in the Ukrainian lingual culture, determining of its lingual and pragmatic features. CAR is characterized as a non-cooperative communicative act that can pose a threat to the face of communicators. The main goal of the work is to identify those communicative strategies and tactics, with the help of which the CRA is carried out in the Ukrainian communicative-pragmatic space, to determine their linguistic parameters and to find out those features of the Ukrainian ethnopsychic type that presuppose the choice of the certain communicative strategy and tactics. The research was carried out on the material of the postmodern texts of the famous Ukrainian writer Yury Andruhovych: “Moscowiada” and “Recreations”. Three main strategies used in CRA are being distinguished – implicit, indirect and direct. An implicit rejection strategy involves the use of evasion from a direct answer, changing the topic of conversation, a counteroffer, the use of ironic statements, and interrogatives. An indirect strategy is carried out with the help of the tactics of using offensive expressions and “why-questions”, as well as the tactics of referring to subjective reasons. A direct refusal implies a direct negative response. Among the strategies, the implicit strategy of refusal prevails, which can be explained by the negative politeness of a Ukrainian who does not tolerate violence against his/her will and is good at defending his personal “red lines” to the last. Probably, this lingual-pragmatic feature has its explanation at the deep-thesaurus level of the Ukrainian lingual personality and is conditioned by such a spiritual value of Ukrainians as freedom-loving. Thus, according to Ukrainian folk ideas, freedom is more valuable than money and even life itself; this idea is also confirmed by the Ukrainian paremic material and the psycholinguistic experiments conducted at the time.
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