Keyword: «speech strategies and tactics»

The article is devoted to the study of the main speech strategies and tactics in circus discourse on the example of communication between members of the circus collective. The article discusses the basic concepts for research – speech strategy, speech tactics, discourse. Moreover, there is a problem to describe generally accepted classification of speech strategies and tactics. Based on the classification of informative and phatic types of speech behavior the article identifies two main speech strategies and corresponding speech tactics.