Public speeches of the Soviet Period: the Image of the Author and the image of the Addressee (based on the V.Grossman's novel interpretation "for a just cause")
The paper studies implicit representation of the images of the author and addressees in public speeches of the Soviet period. The material for this research are the records of meetings to discuss V.Grossman's novel “For a Just Cause”. The first meeting was held on October 13, 1952, it was connected with the nomination of the novel for Stalin's award. The second meeting took place on January 16, 1953 and was caused by the “Doctor's plot”. It is shown that the image of the author may be brought out from the content of the novel on the basis of B.A. Uspensky's typology of observer's views; the image of the addressee may be accumulated on the basis of the postulates of verbal communication by H.P. Grice and the accounts of how the information is presented in the text. The analysis showed that the images of the public speeches authors indicate devotion of the Soviet writers to the principles of the Soviet rhetoric. The image of an addressee shows that the text addressed the authorities, whose support was so important for the writers, rather than the participants of the meetings. During the first meeting its participants were aware of the positive evaluation of the novel by the authorities and they gave arguments for the novel, showing their commitment to different criteria of literary work assessment. During the second meeting, the participants new about the negative evaluation of the novel, and as a result they gave different arguments against it, most of which were proofless.