FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC TYPES OF INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES IN THE INTERVIEW GENRE (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE ORAL SUBCORPUS OF THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE MASS MEDIA)

This article examines the functional and semantic types of interrogative sentences in the interview genre. The research topic is of particular interest, since currently the emphasis in linguistic science is shifting towards the study of live speech and speech communication. The language of oral forms of mass media in Bashkir linguistics has not yet received scientific coverage. Transcripts of television and radio programs aired on state and republican television (BST, Bashkortostan 24, Russia-Bashkortostan) and radio broadcasting (Yuldash, Ashkadar) channels were used as material for the study. Transcribed recordings are posted in the “Oral Subcorp of the Bashkir language mass media”. In an interview, which is a question-and-answer complex, the main genre-forming feature is interrogative sentences. The analysis of transcripts posted in the oral subcorp of the mass media showed that in the genre of interviews, interrogative sentences of various structures are used, prompting the interviewee to communicate this or that information. The analyzed texts contain proper interrogative sentences that encourage the interviewee to communicate this or that information, while rhetorical questions expressing emotions in relation to a particular situation, affirmation or denial of something, are not observed. The article examines the main functional and semantic types of interrogative sentences (general interrogative sentences, presumably interrogative sentences, certifying interrogative sentences, frequent interrogative sentences, alternative questions) fixed in the interview genre, identifies the main markers of interrogativeness characteristic of a certain type of syntactic constructions. The communicative functions performed by each type of interrogative sentences are described in detail, which allow the interviewer to reveal the topic of the interview, get new information, interesting facts, clarify details, confirm or deny this or that information, request additional information about the details of the situation, decide between two or more proposed alternatives.