Russian actor's linguistic personality in the mirror of self-presentation (against the background of Chinese actor's linguistic personality)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the linguistic personality of the Russian actor in the perspective of self-presentational activity, i.e. the formation of the speaker's image, his image, taking into account the value orientations and ways of speech influence on the addressee. The research is based on the three-part structure of linguistic personality (Y. N. Karaulov), on the theory of strategies and tactics of speech influence (O. S. Issers), on the typology of social identities (V. S. Ageyev et al.). The methods of contextual and stylistic analysis, comparative analysis, elements of statistical processing of linguistic material are used in the work. The chosen angle of research (self-presentation) focuses attention on the image function of the interview genre and makes it possible to develop a model for describing professional linguistic personality, in which professional and personal values are in the center of attention. In this paper, the comparison of Russian actors' self-presentational statements in the interview genre with similar statements of Chinese actors allowed us to establish that some values and communicative tactics of Russian actors' self-presentation are universal, independent of nationality and cultural stereotypes (norms of polite behavior), while other values and tactics are determined by the national-cultural specifics of native speakers (emphasis on inner feelings, which is set by the Russian linguistic picture of the world). Based on the analysis of the motivational level of linguistic personality, it was found that Russian actors are much more willing to describe subjective, mental experiences, while Chinese actors more often focus on objective and observable phenomena of reality. The developed model for describing the actor's linguistic personality in the aspect of self-presentation can be used in linguocultural and linguopragmatic studies of speech behavior.

professional linguistic personality, Russian actor, Chinese actor, Russian linguistic personality, Chinese linguistic personality, identity, hierarchy of values, speech strategy, self-presentation, speech tactics of self-presentation