ON SPEECH BEHAVIOR OF AMERICAN SHOW HOSTS (KELLY RIPA AND RYAN SEACREST "LIVE KELLY AND RYAN")
The speech of any person primarily reflects his personality. All the people are different, and all of them use a language and speech patterns in their own, unique manner. The main purpose of this article is to analyze the speech characteristics of two separate people: American TV presenters Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest. Together they host a morning TV show of an entertainment format. This article examines their differences in communication and reveals the relationship between the choice of stylistic devices and the gender of a person. Examples of their speech behavior are presented depending on the situation: the TV show is thematic, all topics vary from episode to episode. The discussions are very diverse, with both everyday letters from readers and current world news being mentioned in the discussions. Nowadays, the topic of gender is very important, and this is also confirmed by the research of linguists. They claim that a person's gender can be determined by their speech. It is noteworthy that we are talking about the socio-cultural gender, and not the physiological sex of a person. Representatives of different scientific fields investigated this issue and also noted the difference in the speech behavior of two different-sex people, even if the objects of the study have exactly the same initial data.