The article deals with the communicative behaviour of a pragmatic sceptic in accordance with the basic communicative parameters. It is based on the author’s classification of the communicative types of sceptics (pragmatic sceptic, critical sceptic, malicious sceptic) depending on the dominating motivation and the degree of skeptical doubt.

There are covered the results of the analysis of the lexical collocation of the nomination “skeptic” which allowed finding out the features of communicative behavior stereotypically connected with this communicative type and reveling the peculiarities of social attitude to it.