INFORMING AS A SPEECH STRATEGY OF SELF-PRESENTATION IN ENGLISH DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article focuses on the analysis of a speech strategy of self-presentation, namely, the informative strategy. The tactics of this strategy are argued to be stating, reminding, asserting. The characteristic features of self-presentemes that realize these tactics have been revealed proceeding from such criteria as explicitness/implicitness, specific features of conceptual basis and communicative goals; the weight of each tactic has also been established.