CATEGORY OF THE ADDRESSEE: MODERN STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF THE RESEARCH
The author of the article analyses the main research directions of the category of the addressee from the standpoint of its interdisciplinarity and historical conditionality. Consideration of the "addressee" concept from the point of view of pragmatics, the theory of speech acts and the text theory is carried out. In the article the addressee is perceived as the receptor of the text and the creator of its pragma-semantic space by direct or indirect influence on a producer of the speech utterance. The author comes to a conclusion about the necessity of a detailed cognitive-linguistic research of the category of the addressee on the material of various subdiscourses of scientific discourse.