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The article proposes a two-layer model of pragmatic strategies in horoscopes, based on English and Uzbek texts (a daily corpus of about 64,000 words and a weekly corpus of 301 texts). Nine strategies are identified and assigned to two layers: a universal-cognitive layer, which relies on general regularities of reader psychology, and a language- and culture-specific layer, in which the same goal is achieved by different linguistic means. Quantitative data show that although the means of hedging, address and advice differ, the ratio of epistemic to deontic modality is almost identical in the two languages.
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