International Journal of Philology

The analysis of the English-language narrative of interrogation at the stage of pre-trial investigation from the standpoint of communicative pragmatics helps to optimize international professional communication, specifies and clarifies the speech situation "investigator - interrogated person", and corresponds to modern scientific research in the field of cognitive-discursive paradigm of linguistics. The purpose of this study is to analyze the communicative and pragmatic characteristics of the narrative of the interrogated person in the modern English interrogation discourse at the stage of pre-trial investigation. The formality, stenciling and ritualization of the interrogation discourse is manifested by the structurally invariant parts in the dialogical text of the interrogation: "introduction", "directed narrative" and "verification". This structure is typical for both primary and secondary stages of interrogation. The institutional form of interrogation is a combination of a narrative with dialogical communication of a police officer and an interrogated person ("narrative as an interactional event"), in the process of which an investigator specifies, reformulates or expands the interrogee’s narrative with leading questions and comments. The specificity of the chronotope is a constitutive characteristic feature of the interrogation discourse: the prototype place of communication is a police investigator's office; in terms of time, the discourse of interrogation is marked by anachronism as the discrepancy between the time of discourse and the time of narration by an interrogated person, which is manifested in the use of different grammatical verb forms and adverbs for the time of discourse and for time of "stories" told by an interrogated person. The structure of the temporal organization of interrogation discourse is characterized by frequent mentioning of a key event by both investigators and interrogees in order to identify or emphasize details and circumstances of the case

investigator; interrogated person; interrogation discourse; pre-trial investigation; directed narrative; dialogical communication