DISCOURSE PERSONALITY CONCEPT OF SPORT COMMENTator OF USA AND RUSSIA
In this paper, a linguocultural comparison of the concepts of the discourse personality of sports commentators of the USA and Russia is carried out. The author develops the concept of a discourse personality to systematize and summarize the characteristics of the verbal behavior of a sports commentator. The relevance of this paper is proved by paying special attention on sports commentary as a subject of study (which is very significant in the era of global involvement of people from different countries in sports competitions and the ubiquitous broadcasting of reports from the scene in many languages, including English and Russian). The manifestation of the author's position to what is happening, the linguistic objectification of feelings, emotions and assessments made by the commentator during the competition and speech strategies used are the object of research that determines the scientific novelty of this study. The material of the study was the texts of sports broadcasts of Russian and American television channels in various sports in Russian and in American English. The author highlighted the similarities and differences of the concepts of the discourse personality of the sports commentator of the USA and Russia. It is proved that the comparison of the concepts of the American and Russian discourse personality of a sports commentator is characterized by significant differences at the level of the core and the core zone. Meanwhile, in the peripheral zone of the concepts there are more similarities than differences.