THE PRAGMATIC ASPECT OF THE AMERICAN TV INTERVIEW (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of American business interviews from a pragmatic point of view. The pragmatic aspect of American TV interviews, first of all, involves that the audience receives the necessary information of interest. TV interviews have long been studied by journalists, but recently linguists have also become interested in them, because quite a lot of language phenomena are gradually coming into use thanks to such programs. Despite the fact that there are a huge number of different ways to convey information to the viewer or reader, interviews stand out from many of them. TV interviews, being a subtype of interviews, are able to meet almost any needs of information recipients. The article deals with its various types. It reveals a comprehensive analysis of this speech genre in terms of the number of participants, the nature of the organization of the interview, etc. The conclusion is made about the isomorphic and allomorphic features among different types of TV interviews.