Speech act of prohibition in the English sublanguage of the customs services activity
The article deals with language means of the speech act of prohibition in the sublanguage of the English customs services activity. The author gives different approaches to determining the place of prohibition in acts of speech communication based on the analysis of the literature, analyses directive speech acts from the standpoint of the interaction between the sender and the addressee, and describes the main types of directives. Means of expressing prohibition are explored, and examples of their functioning in customs services activity are given.