The subject of the research is one of the indispensable components of
modern communication, a means of harmonization of interpersonal
interaction - a compliment. In the first chapter, the compliment is
considered within the framework of the theory of speech acts, the theory
of speech genres and in the structure of speech etiquette and
communicative behavior. The second chapter is devoted to a comprehensive
study of the compliment, describing the pragmatic characteristics of the
situation in which it is used, and identifying the linguistic means used
in its implementation in speech. The basis of this chapter is a
methodologically oriented classification of initiative and reactive
speech moves of a compliment. The third chapter presents the analysis of
textbooks and textbooks on Russian as a foreign language, describes the
principles of teaching the speech act "compliment" in a foreign audience
and offers a methodologically tested system of teaching this speech act
in the framework of the second certification level. This work is
intended for Russian language philologists and teachers of Russian as a
foreign language.