The Interaction of the Deictic and Pragmatic Components in the Semantics of the Belarusian and English Possessive Pronouns: the Comparative Aspect

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of belarusian and english pronominal means of expressing personal deixis as one of the most important categories of communication, since an utterance cannot be produced without the indication to participants in speech interaction. traditionally, personal and possessive pronouns are considered to be the key markers of this category in the language, as they connect the ontological (the nature of things) and situational (real speech situation) concepts together. however, due to their dual semantics, belarusian and english possessions significantly expand the range of their functions from narrow, conventional ones, which are prescribed by the society and automatically used by the communicators, to additional pragmatic ones that allow regulating the speech interaction ​​on the basis of intersubjective, personal and axiological oppositions. thus, as a result, it helps the communicators achieve their goals through the strategy of cooperation with the tactics of establishing contact, integration, praise and sympathy and the confrontation strategy with tactics of threat, lowering the communicative status of the addressee and distancing.