This research focuses on the language environment of children with Down syndrome (DS) in primary and secondary classrooms. In contrast to much of the previous work in this area, the study takes both qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection. In particular, it highlights teachers’ speech rates and speech strategies in relation to children’s individual listening comprehension. Previous research shows that the listening comprehension of children with DS may be limited by deficits in phonological loop capacity and hearing loss. However, most of this previous research has used quantitative measures to compare the memory performances of children with DS with their typically developing or mental agematched peers. This has tended to result in conclusions that regard children with DS as a homogeneous group. This study, however, aims to consider each child with DS as an individual and to explore in depth the relationship between their listening comprehension and teachers’ speech rates and speech strategies in classroom settings. The study was conducted in 2 stages, both using case-study approach to investigate individual children’s interactions with their class teachers (CTs) and teaching assistants (TAs). The Stage 1 research was conducted with three case-study children in four distinct phases and used an inductive approach to collect data. Phase one observed each child in their classroom environment, involving the interactions between teaching staff and the case-study child. Phase two identified the child’s language ability by using standardised language assessments. Phase three then assessed the impact of speech rates on children’s understandings and, finally, Phase four tested the research validity by representing the stories with a counter-balanced design. The results of the Stage 1 research suggested that the use of the slow speech rate improves the children’s listening comprehension although there were clear indications that there would be more significant benefit if they could be given more time to process information. The Stage 2 research focused on speech strategies, with an emphasis on clustered speech and a deductive approach was adopted. Six additional children with DS were assessed by the BPVS and WISC-IV to investigate further speech rate but also in the context of speech strategies. This further examined whether clustered speech could be beneficial to improving the children’s listening comprehension. The findings show that the clustered speech strategy can improve the listening comprehension of all of the children in this phase, particularly at the slow normal speech rate. The key benefit of this strategy is that it can be used to offset problems in processing information that the children experience because of their limited memory capacity. The outcome of my research can provide teaching staff with knowledge that will enable them to enhance the listening comprehension of children with DS.

The master thesis is devoted to the linguopragmatic description of speech behavior of one of the most authoritative TV hosts of the Russian media space - Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner. The research is based on the concept of confrontational communication, connected with the idea of speech conflict, and the concept of cooperative communication, connected with the idea of harmonization. Two key strategies were singled out in speech behavior of V.V. Posner in the framework of the portrait interview: presentation strategy of the program's guest and self-presentation strategy of the host. A registry of basic tactics were compiled and they implement these strategies in a conflict or cooperative dialogue. Typical speech moves manifesting tactics were described. / Магистерская диссертация посвящена лингвопрагматическому описанию речевого поведения одного из самых авторитетных телеведущих российского медийного пространства – Владимира Владимировича Познера. Исследование опирается на понятие конфронтационного общения, связанное с идеей речевого конфликта, и понятие кооперативного общения, связанное с идеей гармонизации. В речевом поведении В.В. Познера в рамках портретное интервью были выделены две ключевые стратегии: стратегия презентация героя программы и стратегия самопрезентации ведущего. Составлен реестр базовых тактик, реализующих данные стратегии в рамках конфликтного или кооперативного диалога, описаны типичные речевые ходы, манифестирующие тактики.

Работа посвящена сравнительному анализу речевых стратегий и тактик в продвижении магазинов эко-товаров в социальных сетях Facebook и Instagram. Материал исследования составили 63 текста на русском языке и 63 текста на английском языке, опубликованные на 20 страницах магазинов, предлагающих эко-товары, за 2020 – 2021 гг.. Первая глава исследования посвящена рассмотрению подходов к определению понятий «речевые стратегии» и «речевые тактики», а также классификаций речевых стратегий и тактик, разработанных российскими и зарубежными авторами. В данной главе также рассмотрены особенности продающих и продвигающих текстов. Во второй главе исследования уделяется внимание социальным сетям Facebook и Instagram, рассмотрен их функционал, история развития и особенности продвижения страниц компаний на данных площадках. Также в данной главе дано определение понятия «экологический маркетинг» и приводится обоснование причин спроса на эко-товары в 2021 году. Третья глава посвящена анализу англоязычных и русскоязычных рекламных текстов. Разработана классификация, которая отражает наиболее часто встречающиеся речевые стратегии и тактики, опубликованные на страницах магазинов эко-товаров. Результаты исследования могут быть использованы практикующими копирайтерами, занимающимися текстовым наполнением страниц экологической направленности в социальных сетях, а также блогерами и другими пользователями социальных сетей, публикующих тексты по теме экологии. Разработанная классификация речевых стратегий и тактик может стать основой для дальнейших лингвистических исследований речевых стратегий и тактик различных дискурсов. В приложении приводится корпус проанализированных текстов в формате классификации. / The research is focused on a comparative analysis of speech strategies and tactics in promoting eco-shops in social networks such as Facebook and Instagram. The collected material includes 63 texts in Russian and 63 texts in English, which were published on 20 pages of shops offering eco-products for the period 2020 – 2021. The first chapter of the study is devoted to the consideration of approaches to the definition of the concepts of "speech strategies" and "speech tactics", as well as classifications of speech strategies and tactics developed by Russian and foreign authors. This chapter also examines the features of selling and promoting texts. In the second chapter, the study focuses on social networks Facebook and Instagram, examines their functionality, history of development and features of promoting company pages on these platforms. Also, this chapter provides a definition of the concept of "environmental marketing" and provides an explanation why eco-products are in demand in 2021. The third chapter is devoted to the analysis of English-language and Russian-language advertising texts. A classification has been developed that reflects the most common speech strategies and tactics published on the pages of eco-shops. The research results can be used by practicing copywriters who are engaged in text filling of pages with an ecological focus on social networks, as well as by bloggers and other users of social networks who publish texts on the topic of environment. The developed classification of speech strategies and tactics can become the basis for further linguistic research of speech strategies and tactics of various discourses. The appendix contains the corpus of the analyzed texts in the classification format.