THE MODELS OF EXPRESSING GRATITUDE AND PRAISE IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN
The article deals with the real processes of communication and the etiquette models of gratitude and praise in the British and Russian lingua-cultures. The paper presents the analysis of these etiquette phenomena on official and everyday levels. It must be mentioned that the forms of expressing gratitude and praise and reactions to it are similar in semantics and pragmatics in both lingua-cultures. However, the difference is observed in "who" thanks or praises "who", "where" and "for what".