The Fields of Pragmatic Discourse Analysis

The article is devoted to the fields of pragmatic discourse analysis. Pragmatic approach to the discourse takes into account all the aspects of communication including both linguistic and extra-linguistic units, and provides efficient tools for affecting an addressee. The article has been written on the basis of synchronic descriptive method in the study of the English language. It is noted in this article that discourse analysis (discourse analysis) is a set of methods and techniques for interpreting various types of texts or statements as products of speech activity. The pragmatic approach to discourse involves analyzing it from the standpoint of speech acts, which allows us to consider pragmatics as one of the areas of discursive research. It is also stated that some definitions of pragmatics are almost identical to some definitions of discourse analysis, which may lead us to think that both fields of study are the same.