Guzhva O. Historical variation of male discourse strategies of politeness in English women’s novels of the 18th – 21st centuries.

The object of this research is male speakers’ politeness strategies verbally realized and presented in the discourse of British female novelists of the 18th – 21st centuries, and its subject comprises cognitive-pragmatic features and historical dynamics of politeness strategies in the discourse of the discursive personality of the male exostereotype. The thesis aims at singling out cognitive-pragmatic features of politeness strategies used by the male discursive personality and historical dynamics of politeness strategies presented in the fiction of British female novelists of the 18th – 21st centuries. The major scientific methods of the research are contextual-intentional analysis of discourse situations; socio-pragmatic parameterization of discourse situations; diachronic comparison; modeling of communicative behavior of the gender stereotype; elements of the statistics analysis method and quantitative calculations. The scientific novelty of the study is asserted by the fact that politeness strategies used by the discursive personality of the male exostereotype are for the first time interpreted in the cognitive-pragmatic space as a discursive entity that changes diachronically. The theoretical value of the paper is presented by its results that contribute to discourse studies, linguistic pragmatics, linguistic personality studies, cultural linguistics. The applied value of the obtained results and conclusions is determined by the prospects of their application in lecture courses on Lexicology (“Lexical Semantics”), Theoretical Grammar (“Pragmatics of the English Sentence”), History of the English Language (“Lexical Structure of New English”), General Linguistics (“Language and Mentality”, “Language and Gender”), in special courses on the theory of communication, discourse studies, gender linguistics and linguistic pragmatics, as well as in postgraduate and undergraduate students’ research work.