Pragmatic features of using predicative adjectives

The article examines predicative adjectives as components of the speech acts of apology and gratitude, as well as the speech act of compliment. The examples show the importance of the speech acts of apology, gratitude, and compliment; the general characteristics and multi-intentionality of these acts are presented. Peculiarities of the language implementation of apology, gratitude, and compliment when using the structure Vcop+Adj are highlighted. Ways of implementing the contact-establishing strategy by using expressive speech acts of apology, gratitude, praise, and compliment are demonstrated. Since all considered speech acts aim to change the addressee's psychological state, their components are predicative adjectives belonging to the group of expressives. According to their position in the discourse, the speech acts of apology, gratitude, praise, and compliment are mostly initial acts. All considered speech acts suggest that predicative adjectives are modified by various intensifiers that occur in different syntactic structures. They can be expressed using a direct speech act, whose linguistic semantics corresponds to the illocutionary force of the speech act, and using an indirect speech act, realized with the help of speech forms whose illocutionary force does not align with their semantics.