Linguistic and Cultural Features of the Interview Genre (Based on Interviews With Italian Cultural Figures)

The article identifies and analyzes the main features of the interview genre in Italian at different language levels: lexical, grammatical, stylistic, as well as some of its cultural features. As a result, conclusions are drawn about the main trends that we observe in modern spoken Italian, as well as about the cultural features of the interview genre in Italy. At the lexical level, the most frequent types of borrowings, colloquial, and slang expressions have been identified. At the grammatical level– there are special excretory constructions characteristic of the modern spoken language, rows of homogeneous terms, incomplete sentences, diminutive suffixes. At the stylistic level, these are the most common visual and expressive means. Culturological features are also analyzed, such as, for example, the use of “talking” names. Thus, the interview genre illustrates the vector of development that the Italian language is currently taking