DIDACTIC EMPHASIS IN THE INVESTIGATOR’S SPEECH (ON THE MATERIAL OF ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN FICTION DETECTIVES)

Abstract

. The article is devoted to the study of linguistic realization of didactic function in the work of the investigator in order to achieve in suspects self-judgment of their illegal acts and awareness of their harmful impact on society. The study analyzes the communicative behavior of detectives and investigators in English and Russian fiction detectives. Rhetorical devices with the help of which law enforcement officers emphasize the didactic impact of their judgments are described. The illocutionary power of means of didactic emphasis in the speech of detectives and investigators is revealed, and the frequency of use of devices of didactic emphasis in their communicative behavior is compared. The article concludes that the most frequent and significant rhetorical means of implementing didactic accentuation in the speech of Russian and English detectives or investigators are lexical repetitions, emphatic constructions, parcelling and syntactic parallelism. With the help of these means, it becomes possible in a vivid and expressive form to evoke in the interrogated persons an awareness of the harmfulness of the acts committed by them and subsequently to recognize their antisocial essence.