Abstract:
The aim of the master’s qualification paper is to represent verbal and non-verbal
expressions of the "promise" in pre-election interviews. It presupposes the following
objectives: to consider the genre interview and its classifications in the theoretical works of
Ukrainian and foreign linguistics; to characterize pre-election interviews stored on the video hosting You Tube; to identify strategies and tactics of the speech act “promise”;
to clarify its notion and types of expression in the scope of speech act theory; to determine the role of imperatives as the means of resilience; to reflect the schemes of the process of giving “promise” through interview format in the following models and to denote the ways of transferring this communicative act on the examples of Ukrainian-speaking and English-speaking politicians; to trace verbal and non-verbal means of its expression in the election speeches of Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
