TIME AND PLACE AS BASIC FACTORS OF COMMUNICATIVE SITUATIONS

The article deals with such basic factors of communicative situations as time and place. They are the very first factors of human reality which individuals identify. These primary notions are used by human beings to organize the world structure. Individuals perceive the world only through time and place categories as all things exist at a certain place and any phenomenon or event take place in time. Communication is considered to be the process where two or more linguistic persons interact with each other in order to give/receive/change information in the situation at a certain place and time. In other words the communicative act comprises two basic constituents – the situation and the extralinguistic aspect. The very extralinguistic knowledge, conditions, place and time influence the process of communication. Therefore the communicative situation comprises three components – speakers – place - time. Place and time factors are analyzed in communicative situations of the organized events or meetings at a certain place and time within the culture of England. Due to the analysis of such situations the main types of place and time categories as well as their language actualization are identified