SELF-PRESENTATION OF RUSSIAN ACTORS IN THE GENRE OF INTERVIEW: VERBAL-SEMANTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC ASPECTS

Abstract

The article develops ideas of the theory of self-presentation as a communicative strategy of impression management. In the center of the work is the correlation between the strategy, its inherent tactics and those communicative moves (speech techniques, linguistic means) in which the tactics are realized. Particular attention in the study is paid to the very choice of such a correlation, such a methodological approach, which assumes a deliberately wider coverage of communicative situations that realize the strategy of self-presentation. The article, following A.V. Aksenova’s concept, emphasizes several key aspects of self-presentation: distancing and reduction of distance in relation to the recipient and other people; positive and negative evaluation, which actors use to convey the value attitude to their profession, their worldview; external and internal orientation of self-presentation; direct and indirect self-presentation. On the material of 320 self-presentational statements the leading tactics of Russian actors’ self-presentation in the interview genre are described.