Problems of studying informal interview in the aspect of rhetorical structures theory

The article studies the texts of informal interviews based on rhetorical structures theory. It states that the scientific importance of this theory in analyzing the text of informal interviews helps to single out and solve such pragmatic problems as: 1) prospects of relationship between the interlocutors in the solution of certain speech tasks; 2) models of constructing spontaneous dialogue text; 3) correlation between informative and intentional levels of dialogue acts carried out by the speakers. Within the framework of the research, the author uses the model of rhetoric structures for the purpose of determining the integral structure of discourse inputs into the general course of current communication development made by interview participants. Informal interview is a complex discourse phenomenon of the verbal behaviour of two interlocutors, each of whom has individual opinions and intentions in the sphere of exercising speech influence over the third (unseen) participant of the current communicative process - the readers’ audience.