INTERVIEW WITH THE MANAGER: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE STUDY (Based on the Material of the English Press)

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the texts of interviews with managers by using a psycholinguistic ap-proach to identify the characteristic features of the presentation of the manager’s personality in English-language periodicals. Despite the attempts made to study the personality of the manager from various scientifi c perspectives, special psycholinguistic studies of this personality have not yet been conducted. The goal of this article is to identi-fy the individual psychological characteristics of the leader’s personality based on the analysis of psycholinguistic markers in the interview texts. As a material the texts of interviews with managers from English periodicals are used: “The Economist”, “The Enterprise World”, “The Wired”, “Vizaca”, “Mckinsey”, etc. The study showed that interviews with managers diff er in compositional and structural features and are represented by three structural types: structured, semi-structured and non-standardized interview type. These types diff er in the degree of inter-view stereotypeness, the standardization of the journalist’s questions, and their personal focus on a particular inter-locutor. At the fi rst stage of the research the pre-dialog part of the interview is studied since the image of a leader is created by a journalist using certain linguistic means. The main diff erences in the format of headings for interviews with managers were found depending on the structural type of the interview. Linguistic evaluative markers in the texts of interview annotations, characterizing the personality of the leader, are analyzed. Psycholinguistic analysis, deduction and interpretation methods are applied to identify and correlate certain linguistic characteristics with the individual psychological features of the leader’s personality. An initial portrait of a successful English leader is compiled, which is formed through the journalist’s view of his interlocutor and consists of a set of specifi c profes-sional and business qualities: enthusiasm, motivation for success, dynamics, innovativeness, perseverance. Based on the diff erences in the structural organization of the interview, the importance to use qualitative and quantitative methods is justifi ed. The combination of interpretative psycholinguistic analysis with content analysis reveals itself as the most eff ective methodology for further researching the dialogical part of interviews with managers. The re-sults obtained contribute to the practice of journalist’s work, the theory of psycholinguistics and cultural linguistics.