Means of expression of tactic “excuse” in conflict discourse

The article is devoted to the analysis of tactic “Excuse”. We present two types of excuse in conflict dialogic discourse, it is excuse oneself and excuse someone. Also we identify and consider the most frequent communicative steps which are necessary for the realization of a certain tactic of excuse, these are explanation, clarification and objection. In the article we also analyze the most frequent language and speech markers of excuse in the studied types of excuse, these are lexical and syntactic constructions and lexical units. As examples we use dialogues from modern Russian films in which characters’ communicative behavior is close to the communicative behavior of people in real life. The criteria for film selection were the artistic value of the films and recognition of the films by a large number of viewers.