Features of Anna Matveeva’s communicative style in the Telegram channel

The features of the communicative style of a linguistic personality are studied within the framework of media linguistics, linguopersonology, stylistics, and the theory of speech communication. According to the concept developed in the communicative stylistics of the text, this style is expressed in the communicative manifestation of the personality in various communication situations at the level of typical communicative roles, tactics and strategies, the choice of regulatory means and structures, attitudes towards communicative norms, orientation towards the addressee, preferences in the choice of speech genres. The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of the communicative style of the writer’s creative media linguistic personality based on his speech behavior in the Telegram channel. The research material was the Telegram channel of the Russian writer Anna Matveeva (posts for 2024-2025). The study was carried out in line with communicative stylistics using the methods of discourse analysis, semantic-stylistic and contextual analysis. Anna Matveeva's linguistic personality is revealed in her personal Telegram channel as creative, emotional, passionate, open communicator. Various communication strategies are used in her blogs: self-presentation, creating a positive mood, understanding experience, informing, expert assessment. Various regulatory means and structures reveal the author’s image and create the impression of the writer as a bright public figure with a rich information thesaurus and an original worldview. The regulatory means that predominate are epithets, metaphors, irony, and hyperbole. The high-usage regulatory structures are the following: repetition, amplification, gradation, antithesis, stringing of rhetorical questions. Anna Matveeva acts in different communicative roles (as a blogger, writer, expert analyst). The author's tone of communication is confidential. The predominant type of speech is reasoning with elements of description. The involvement of subscribers in the life of the community can be assessed by the communicative effect on the addressee. Subscribers to the writer's Telegram channel are engaged in the active discussion, judging by their comments and assessments. Anna Matveeva presents herself as a bearer of elite speech culture, with a sense of humor, capable of objectively perceiving the world around her. Anna Matveeva's communicative style in the Telegram channel reflects her characteristics as a writer who creatively describes current events with the figurative perception of the surrounding world inherent to this type of linguistic personality. The results of the study are of interest for further analysis of the features of media communication of a writer as a linguistic personality and can be useful for media linguistics, linguopersonology, and stylistics.

communicative stylistics, media text, communicative style, blog, Anna Matveeva