A language game is in works of modern satirists (communicative and pragmatic aspect)

Abstract. Communicative and pragmatic peculiarities of the language game are distinguished in the article. The model of communicative situation of D. Hymes is put into the bases. A speech game may be built on the violation of each aspects of such situation. The roles of an addresser and an addressee; the category of «subject of speech» (topic); circumstances, it means the place, the date and another important parameters; communica-tive channel; code, that is language, dialect, style, form of communication or a speech genre; communicative event; a key is the assessment of effectiveness of communicative event; the aim is the category which shows the motivation of the participants of the communicative situation.