SOME ASPECTS OF PORTRAIT DESCRIPTIONS IN DIFFERENT STYLES AND GANRES OF THE MODERN FRENCH LANGUAGE
In modern linguistics the description of a portrait is the universal form of textual representation of a person. Description and characteristic of a person by listing his/her features, is manifested in all areas of communication - from everyday communication to online dating sites and police records. Our task is to study the description of the portrait as a separate speech genre and identify the variant and invariant features, which are determined by the communicative purpose of each text.