The urgency of the problem under investigation is due to the increased role on the world stage of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese political leaders. The purpose of this article is to disclose by means of a detailed analysis the New Year congratulations not only of the linguistic portrait of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping, but also the main achievements and new directions in foreign and domestic policy of the country. The leading approaches to research this problem are a descriptive method; analytical method; comparative and comparative-historical methods which allowed to disclose and analyze fully the content of speeches of Presidents of the People's Republic of China. In the given article we consider the journalistic style as one of makrostyles of the Chinese language; official texts of New Year speeches of political leaders of the People's Republic of China in the XXI century are studied and analyzed fully; stylistic, specific and political features in Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping's speeches are revealed. The materials of the article can be useful for experts, engaged in studying not only Chinese stylistics, but also the Russian-Chinese relations at the present stage, for employees and teachers of humanitarian disciplines of higher education institutions and research centers. It is also recommended for undergraduate students, post-graduate students and students of the higher school with profound research preparation.

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This paper explores the features and interactional functions of collaboratively constructed TCUs (CCTs) in responsive positions of question-answer sequences in Mandarin daily conversations. Adopting the methodologies of Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics and Multimodal Analysis, the study explores the sequential features of the CCTs and bodily-visual resources co-occurring with the CCTs, such as gaze orientations and gestures. Two categories have been identified based on the participants’ roles in the question-answer sequences. First, the answerer initiates the response to the question, and the questioner collaboratively completes the response. The analysis shows that the questioners are not conveying the action of answering the question but assuming the answer to the question. Second, one answerer initiates the response to the question, and another one collaboratively completes the response. The data demonstrates that this type of CCTs usually involves the two question-recipients with more or less equal epistemic access to the referent.