Language Representation of the Speaker’s Average Level of Professionalism in a Biographical Interview (Based on the English Language)

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ID21972408
AuthorsIrina Tislenkova (0000-0002-7202-2773, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume14
Issue1
Pages73-80
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueВестник Пермского университета Российская и зарубежная филология (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2073-6681 • E-ISSN: 2658-6711
PublisherPerm State University (PSU) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17072/2073-6681-2022-1-73-80
OpenAlexW4297835439
LanguageEN
References cited4

The research is focused on identification of the language markers functioning in English oral spontaneous speech that correlate with the average level of professional knowledge in representatives of humanitarian professions and that may be detected by the recruitment commission during the employee selection process. The purpose of the study is to identify these speech signs, conduct their sociolinguistic analysis, and systematize them according to such parameters as syntax, vocabulary, grammar, speech strategy, type of speech culture, and etiquette. The research material is composed of modern video interviews with representatives of creative professions from English-language talk shows and television programs. Methodologically, the study is based on sociolinguistic categories method of Professor T. A. Ivushkina, as well as the methods of description, generalization, and interpretation. As a result of the study, the author has detected such speech markers of the middle level professionals as the predominance of complex sentences having a broken syntactic structure, an abundance of enumerations, clichéd media assertions, pseudo-connecting and discursive words, comparisons expressed by verbal and adjective metaphor, phrasal verbs with metaphorical meanings, speakers’ preference for nominative adjectives, sporadic use of abstract nouns, avoiding the usage of foreign words, phraseological units, terminology, pun, and irony. The speech strategy is characterized by softened unobtrusive modulation, hesitation, a large number of empty words and the lack of independence in judgments, double understatement in speakers’ remarks about themselves. The main type of speech is the literary-colloquial type of speech culture, the habit of dialogical communication

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