Speech portrait of a modern Russian-speaking video blogger (based on S. Minaev's video blog)

Student: Bugakova Daria

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

Modern linguistic research informed by anthropocentrism have become extremely popular nowadays. Therefore, linguistic personality and speech portraits are an important area of research interest. Numerous papers have attempted to analyse the speech portrait of various social and professional groups, such as politicians, journalists, and scientists. At the same time, there is a lack of research that reveals the linguistic characteristics of speech portraits of video bloggers, especially Russian-speaking ones. The purpose of the present study is to identify features of the speech portrait of the Russian video blogger Sergey Minaev. The purpose of this study is to identify the features of the speech portrait of Russian video blogger Sergey Minaev. The study applies linguistic methods, frequency analysis and intent analysis. The research material: a corpus of written transcripts of 10 video published on YouTube (channel ‘Minaev LIVE’).

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