REPRESENTING OF PROVERBS AS THE DIFFERENT SPEECH ACTS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

Abstract

A central attention in Pragmatics is engaged by theory of speech acts. Speech act is understood as an intentional speech action achieved by the addresser with a certain communicative purpose and in accordance with the principles and rules of communication accepted in the society. Speech act is usually stated by an utterance and considered to be a minimum unit of communication. It should be noted that the speech act is characterized by intentionality and conventionality. Intentionality means the communicative aim, conventionality – compliance with socially and generally accepted norms of behavior and principles of communication. Thus, speech act has own definite structure consisting of three levels