Speech impact as an object of research

The author explores the speech act in the framework of communicative competence of broad and narrow sense, its goals, methods. The characteristic of the strategies of suggestive speech act is given. The strategies ofpositive and negative politeness in directive acts of speech influence with speech act markers in the works of A.P. Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant as well as speech acts in comments on French websites are considered.