CULTURE DIFFERENCES IN EXPRESSING SPEECH ACT OF AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT

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The article describes issues based on analyzing culture differences in expressing speech act of agreement and disagreement. In the speech of non-native speakers of English, there is a grammatical way - the use of syntactic constructions that are synonymous or identical with respect to the initiating replica. They represent an explicit way of expressing agreement and enter the center of a given field. The specificity of the speech act of disagreement in the English-language discourse is that it is difficult and sometimes impossible to separate it from the previous statements of the communicative process.

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