ИСТИНА

The report considers the semantic and pragmatic category of performativity, which, being in the sphere of both language and language activity, fixes not only the representation of an action, but also its implementation in the speech act itself. The means of expressing of performativity are special verb forms - performatives, which combine both the description and the performance of an action immediately at the moment when such a construction appears in speech (just at the time of speaking). The report describes grammatical units that contribute to the linguistic expression of the category of performativity. Various stylistic functions that are implemented using performatives in texts of different discursive types are considered. The use of performatives is explained not only by the actual linguistic and communicative tasks that they solve within the framework of specific speech acts, but also by socio-psychological reasons related to the development of Internet technologies, and in particular, social networks as a field for the realization of a language personality