LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIVE PERSONALITY San Francisco, California: B&M Publishing, 132 pp. <...> The monograph deals with the use of the language in the process of speech communication. <...> One of the major focuses of contemporary linguistics is the study of how speech peculiarities of any person in any situation fit within the overall language system. <...> Mastering the appropriate language is a prerequisite for personal socialization. <...> Modern sociolinguistics has come a long way to englobe various aspects at the crossroads of social and language sciences, e.g. the heterogeneous level of civilizational development in different parts of the world, the discrepancy between personal communication needs and the needs of society, the logic of development of science per se and its place in the knowledge paradigm, the influence of vernacular linguistic traditions and research interests of individual scientists). <...> The research touches upon the forms of language functioning as a semiotic and communication system, socialization as a measure of personal intellectual, moral and cultural development. <...> The structure of the monograph complies with its objectives: it consists of two chapters, where the author studies the speech communication process and introduces the concept of “communicative personality” as the research object. <...> The first chapter gives a review of the historical study of language built on the comparison of several descriptive data. <...> When considering several language families, the author reveals that the processes of linguistic changes are the same for all languages, regardless of their grammatical structure. <...> The use of inductive generalizations makes it possible to consider convergences and divergences between various languages from different points of view, including grammar. <...> A speech act can change the listener’s predisposition to further reactions. <...> Intensive language interaction makes the listener more sensitive to the perception of subsequent stimuli and provides for the person’s response that is largely dependent on the level of education and culture. <...> The author analyzes the speech segment making a special emphasis on the elements of the statement and their hierarchy. <...> In the second chapter, the author highlights the characteristics of communicative needs which are reflected in the specific mechanisms of the speech and cogitative activity. <...> Irina Mitrofanova addresses the issue of communicative competence in the process of interpersonal communication and classifies the types of situations influencing people's behavior. <...> The use of speech as a means of thinking, and not just communication, is stressed. <...> The author reveals basic syntax characteristics of internal speech <...>