THE POSSIBILITY OF CONDITIONAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH TO PERFORM SOME SPEECH ACTS

This article is devoted to the study of possibility of conditional sentences to perform some speech activities in a certain communicative context. In particular, it studies the problem of conditional relationships from the viewpoint of pragmatics, in particular, their potential to carry out some speech acts. The aim of the research is to reveal the pragmatic aspect of conditional sentences in English such as to perform some speech acts. In order to reach the goal of research, the following tasks are set: a) review of related literature; b) critique and synthesis of existing theories; c) analysis of potential of conditional sentences to perform speech acts in a situation. In the study, some methods of linguistic analysis have been used: linguistic description, analysis, synthesis, pragmatic analysis, speech act theory. The results of research show that conditional sentences in English can perform the following speech acts in a certain situation of communication: permission giving and asking, hesitation, strong assertion, offer, persuasion, advice and the role of social context, extralinguistic factors as addresser and addressee, communicative aim, context are highlighted in this research.