On the concepts of dialogue, discourse, speech act and illocutiveness

Abstract

The article discusses the concepts of dialogue and discourse, as well as their integration on a common level with the concepts of speech act and illocutiveness. More over the article deeper analyses theoretical basis of the concepts of dialogue, discourse, speech act and illocutivness. Author concluded that the use of concepts such as discourse, speech act, illocutive purpose, intensity, illocutive obligation, pragmatic force in pragmalinguistic research is closely related to the pragmatic situations that arise as a result of the speech context and the speech situation.