Tretyak Y. Discursive portrait and strategies of legitimation of a respondent in the genre of French newspaper and magazine interview.

The thesis deals with linguistic and pragmatic means of portrayal and legitimation of a respondent in the genre of French newspaper and magazine interview. The author points out the main genre and discursive peculiarities of the newspaper and magazine interview and introduces a classification of its genre varieties. It is determined in the thesis that a respondent's portrait is an integral semantic, pragmatic and communicative part of the genre of the newspaper and magazine interview. It takes different functional features and ways of wording, depending on the genre of the interview and its communicative goals. The main function of the portrait is legitimation of the respondents and their roles. It is proved that the main vectors of a respondent's portrayal in the French newspaper and magazine interview are as follows: the informational, the axiological and the communicative-discursive one. The main types of portrayal are processes of focalization, identification, aspectualization, actualization, modalization, polifonization, comparison. It's determined that a respondent's legitimation isn't restricted to the process of portrayal, but is implemented in two parallel planes - a communicative plane and a discursive one. Linguistic and pragmatic means of realization of the strategies of legitimation on each of the mentioned levels are shown and analyzed.