COMMUNICATIVE ACTS THREATENING THE POSITIVE IMAGE OF ADDRESSEE (ON THE MATERIAL OF RUSSIAN AND GERMAN LANGUAGES)
The article is devoted to the study of communicative acts causing damage to the positive image of the addressee in the communicative behavior of German linguocultural community. The aim of the article is to describe verbal and non-verbal means of communication the use of which leads to communicative failures in German linguoculture. The material for the study is presented by dialogues containing derogative verbal/non-verbal speech acts from German feature films of the 21st century: “Almanya: Welcome to Germany” (2011) directed by Yasemin Şamdereli, “Rock star”(2016) directed by Kai Meyer, “Our time is now” (2016) directed by Martin Schreier, “Suck Me Shakespeer“ (original “Fack ju Gӧthe”) (2013) directed by Bora Dağtekin. The pragmatic and linguistic analysis revealed that certain lexical, grammatical, stylistic means, forbidden subjects, as well as non-verbal means of communication pose threat to the addressee positive image. Expression of disapproval, criticizing, complaining and touching on forbidden subjects were identified as derogative speech acts damaging the positive image of the addressee most of all.