GENDER PECULIARITIES OF COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH

The article is devoted to the gender studies which are one of the priorities in modern linguistics and which disclose a specific character of a commencement address (both in American and British English) on different levels of the language system. The author places special emphasis on the gender analysis of the structure and lingvo-stylistic aspects of the given commencement addresses. The main peculiarities of the commencement address structure, observed both in men’s and women’s speeches, are widely discussed in the work.