Mediator as an elite linguistic personality

The article is devoted to one of the aspects of the study of a linguistic personality: the consideration of the features of the speech culture of a linguistic personality, distinguished by the type of activity. The focus of attention is on the profession of mediator as a sought–after social profession related to the peaceful settlement of conflicts and disagreements. The purpose of the study is to identify the criteria of the elite speech culture of the linguistic personality of the mediator in the professional field of mediation. The article defines the linguistic personality of a mediator as an independent mediator in conflict negotiations. The features of the speech culture of mediators are considered. The scientific novelty lies in the description of the mediator's linguistic personality as a carrier of an elite speech culture. As a result of the study, the signs of the elite speech culture of the mediator's linguistic personality are described: orthological, informational, genre-stylistic, rhetorical, communicative, moral, psychological. The research contributes to the sociolinguistic description of a key participant in the mediation discourse.