SPEECH ACTS FUNCTIONING IN SMALL-FORM BUSINESS TEXTS

The article is devoted to small-form business texts and their differential criteria on the structural, cognitive and linguistic levels. The author focuses her attention on different types of speech acts functioning in such texts, analyses directive and hybrid speech acts and arrives at a conclusion that there are hybrid speech acts (assertive + prescriptive, assertive + requestive, assertive + directive) in the introductive and principal units of the business letters and simple speech acts in the closing unit (commisives, behabitives).