COMMUNICATIVE TACTICS MANIFESTING SELF-PRESENTATION STRATEGY IN ENGLISH DETECTIVE DISCOURSE

Abstract

The present article reports on the study of the communicative strategy of self-presentation and the communicative tactics that manifest it in detective discourse. The analysis is based on the data from English detective novels. The object of the study is the characters’ speech: the detective’s interrogation of witnesses and suspects. The scope of the study is the communicative tactics of self-presentation as the means of influencing the suspect in order to obtain the necessary information to solve the crime. The purpose is cognitive and pragmatic analysis of the communicative tactics applied by the detectives to obtain the necessary information to solve a crime. The investigation is based on the general and special linguistic methods : synthesis and analysis, method of observation, descriptive method, pragmatic and linguistic method, analysis of contextual interpretation. The main results of the study. The cognitive and pragmatic analysis of the detective’s strategic plan has resulted in our own classification of communicative tactics and strategies applied by the detective during the interrogation of witnesses and suspects. It has been established that one of the major communicative strategies used by the detective is self-presentation. Self-presentation is realized by the following communicative tactics: tactics of distancing, solidarity, belonging to a certain group. Each of these tactics is manifested by certain lexical, morphological and syntactic means of the English language. The perspective for further research is seen in the comprehensive study of the linguistic mechanisms of manipulative impact on the recipient in fiction.