Training manual for universities . Edition. 2nd, overdraft. and dop. - Gorlovka: GGPIYA Publishing House, 2005. - 282 s. - rus. Circulation 300 copies. The textbook reveals the basic concepts of the theory of speech communication . The types, types and models of communication are named, the main aspects of the context and situation are characterized, the cognitive prerequisites of speech communication are described, the national specifics of speech communication are shown. Particular attention is paid to linguistic ethology: the main units of speech behavior of participants are described, the rules of speech communication are given . Each chapter contains questions, practical tasks, lists of scientific literature . At the end of the book is a terminological dictionary .. Uch. The grant is addressed to senior philologists, masters and graduate students .