HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

THE STRATEGY OF SELF-PRESENTATION WITHIN THE SUBGENRE OF THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE OLYMPIC DISCOURSE “PORTRAIT INTERVIEW-SKETCH”

2021. №1, pp. 85-88

Torbik Elena M. - Astrakhan State University, 414056, Russia, Atrakhan, 20a Tatishhev st.

The article is devoted to the study of the subgenre "portrait interview-sketch", which has not been studied within the English-language Olympic discourse. The analyzed materi- als were published on the official website of the US Olympic team during the 2018 Winter Olympics. The means of implementing a self-presentation strategy designed to create a positive image of athletes-members of the Olympic team, which can be used as the basis for representing the image of the country as a whole, are identified and illustrated at the lexical, phraseological, morphological and semantic levels. The current research has demonstrated the disengagement of this genre from politics.

Key words: Olympic discourse, subgenre, portrait interview-sketch, strategy of self- presentation, speech tactics

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