Self-Introduction as Metaspeech Type of Self-Presentation Strategy in English-language Discourse

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of self-presentemes-self-introductions realizing metaspeech self-presentation strategy in English-language dialogical discourse. The research results in defing the function of these self-presentemes and their position in the system of phatic metacommunicative units on the basis of propositional schemes underlying them, analyzing the way of speech representation of autonomic and hybrid self-presentemes – explicit / implicit, and the peculiarities of their language characteristic features together with the variations caused by extra-lingual factors. The article also offers the results of quantitative analysis of self-presentemes-self-introductions realizations in institutional and non-institutional discourse.