IMPERATIVENESS AND THE THEORY OF SPEECH ACTS
The article discusses the key provisions of the theory of speech acts, presents their modern classifications and models. A speech act is interpreted in the work as the production of a certain sentence in the context of real speech communication to implement a certain communicative intention. The focus is on the illocutionary act, the main criterion for highlighting which is the presence of a sign of expediency. Analyzing the concept of speech genres, the author of the article singles out imperative genres and examines their originality and linguistic expression.