The thesis focuses on the study of the genres of literary criticism of present-day English-speaking media discourse from communicative and cognitive perspectives. The genres of literary criticism of present-day English-speaking media discourse include literary abstract, literary review, literary commentary, feature, interview with the author and customer review. The information about new phenomena of literary process and new books proves to be a common feature of the above-mentioned genres. However, the evaluative bents, the subject matter and the composition structure of each genre are presented differently. The first chapter highlights present-day approaches to the analysis of the investigated genres. The genre typology and discursive features of the genres of literary criticism have been singled out. The second chapter specifies communicative strategies and tactics, speech act representation and axiological peculiarities of the investigated genres. Firstly, the following communicative strategies in literary abstract, literary review, literary commentary, feature and customer review have been determined: relevancy principle structuring, utterance immunization, generalization, assumption, comparison, exemplification, rhetoric questions strategies. The overall aim of such strategies is to get the idea of the literary work and urge the customer to buy and read it. The communicative strategies, such as confrontation / cooperation and closeness / remoteness strategies are singled out in interview with the author, whose overall goal is to give the idea of the situation and to appeal to the addressee's emotions or to exclude the interlocutor from the communicative field. Secondly, extralinguistic means, such as graphics, visualization and commercialization, are a common feature of the investigated genres. Graphic means, such as type change, colour, bright titles, photographs of books, pictures, cartoons are aimed at attracting reader's attention to the book or its author and advertising the literary work. Thirdly, the following speech acts in the genres of literary criticism of present-day English-speaking media discourse have been determined: representatives, directives, commissives, expressives and declarations. Eventually, by means of evaluative adjectives, adverbs, nouns and verbs critics influence readers, prove their opinion of the literary work, its author, or literary style, etc. The conducted research emphasizes that the most axilogically specified ones are the following genres: literary abstract, literary review and customer review.
