Science Journal of VolSU. Linguistics. 2018. Vol. 17. No. 3 35  Ильинова E.Ю., Кочетова Л.А., 2018 ГЛАВНАЯ ТЕМА НОМЕРА  www.volsu.ru DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2018.3.4 UDC 811.111’27 Submitted: 27.07.2018 LBC 81.432.1-006 Accepted: 20.08.2018 SELF-REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH SPOKEN DISCOURSE: CORPUS-BASED PRAGMATIC-AND-SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACH Elena Yu. Ilyinova Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia Larisa A. Kochetova Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia Abstract. The paper is devoted to a corpus-based pragmatic-social-and-linguistic analysis of the tag clause that is considered to be a form of discursive self-representation. Reflecting such social conventions of Britishness as distance regulation and communicative tonality of the tag clause is used in coordination with social status and a speaker’s role in interactions. The research is based on oral speech samples from the British National Corpus. Social, demographic, regional, age and some other metadata of the corpus were supported by Lancaster Stats Tools online, which helped to integrate statistics on the frequency of tag clause usage, to characterize its syntactic variations and discourse value in English oral talks. Three syntactic models that differ in their predicative base may be used in English to construct the tag clause (affirmative, interrogative, imperative), and their choice reflects the varieties of pragmatic intentions, that may be: fact or detail verification, small talk, strong or weak position representation, consent, agreement or objection, disagreement, disbelief, disregard, or politeness. Corpus analysis of social indexes of speakers points to low level of gender preferences in the tag clause usage, proves correlation between various intentions of self-representation and the choice of tag clause models by social classes and age groups on a synchrony level, highlights negative dynamics in the frequency of tag clause in speech of modern young British. Key words: discourse, corpus, corpus-based methodology, self-representation, sociolinguistic approach. Citation. Ilyinova E.Yu., Kochetova L.A. Self-Representation in English Spoken Discourse: Corpus-Based Pragmatic-and-Sociolinguistic Approach. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2, Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2018, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 35-48. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2018.3.4 УДК 811.111’27 Дата поступления статьи: 27.07.2018 ББК 81.432.1-006 Дата принятия статьи: 20.08.2018 ДИСКУРСИВНАЯ САМОРЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ ЛИЧНОСТИ В АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНОМ МЕЖЛИЧНОСТНОМ ОБЩЕНИИ: КОРПУСНЫЙ ПРАГМАСОЦИОЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ Елена Юрьевна Ильинова Волгоградский государственный университет, г. Волгоград, Россия Лариса Анатольевна Кочетова Волгоградский государственный университет, г. Волгоград, Россия Аннотация. В статье предлагается корпусно-ориентированный прагмасоциолингвистический анализ разделительного предложения, которое рассматривается как одна из форм дискурсивной саморепрезента- ции личности, отражающая своеобразие такой конвенции англоязычного межличностного общения, как