SOME FEATURES OF EXPRESSIVE SPEECH ACTS OF CONGRATULATION AND WISHING IN ENGLISH, GERMAN, AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES

The article reveals the content of such notions as “speech act of congratulation” and “speech act of wish” and describes some similarities and essential distinctive features of these speech acts realization in the English, German and Russian languages. The authors mention the conditions of speech act of congratulation success and classify the existing occasions for it, also indicate the differences between congratulation and wish. At the same time the authors pay special attention to the fact that at the present moment, notwithstanding the tendency of speech expressiveness thorough studying, the complex description of speech acts themselves still remains uncompleted.