Аляева Л.С. Коммуникативная тактика похвалы в англоязычных интервью с представителями шоу бизнеса

The article addresses the communicative tactics of praise frequently employed by interviewees in this speech genre, based on material from modern English‑language interviews. It has been established that praise in interviews can often be referred to a third party who is not directly involved in communication with the journalist. As a rule, praise is expressed explicitly, while its implicit form is rarely used. The motives behind interviewees’ use of communicative tactics of praise have been identified. These are as follows: to thank somebody for cooperation and to build future collaborative work with a media personality. In numerous interviewees’ statements, the tactics of praise are combined with self‑presentation tactics. This combination is typically driven by the interviewees’ intention to improve their image among the readership and to present themselves as interesting and attractive participants in the public space of mass media. The main linguistic means used to implement the communicative tactics of praise are positive evaluative epithets that characterize the professional and personal qualities of media personalities. In addition to epithets, interviews reveal lexical repetitions and intensifying words, which enhance the utterances perlocutionary effect.