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Speech Genres

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Gladrow W., Kotorova E. G. Contrastive study of speech behavior patterns. Speech Genres, 2015, no. 2(12), pp. 27-39. DOI: 10.18500/2311-0740-2015-2-12-27-39

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General problems of the speech genres theory
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Article
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811.112.2’23+811.161.1’23
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10.18500/2311-0740-2015-2-12-27-39
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Contrastive study of speech behavior patterns

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Gladrow Wolfgang, Humboldt University of Berlin
Kotorova Elizaveta Georgievna, University of Zielona Gоra
Abstract: 

The increased interest in the analysis of human verbal behavior leads to the need to define a basic unit of the communication sphere which could serve as the basis of its analysis. The first part of the article provides an overview of different speech units proposed by various authors, such as a speech act (J. Austin and J. Searle), speech genre (M. Bakhtin), situational, aspect and parametric model of communicative behavior (I. Sternin), speech action pattern (K. Ehlich und J. Rehbein). As a conclusion to the overview, the authors propose their own interpretation of the basic unit of communication which they call “speech behavior pattern” (SBP). The illocutionary content and general organization of SBP can be considered universal, while its realization in a language is culturally conditioned and therefore may vary significantly in different language communities. Utterances constituting a certain SBP are organized as a field, which includes a prototypical center and a gradually formed periphery. The second part of the article considers the major factors and components of the contrastive analysis of SBP, including a definition of the illocutionary goal, identifying situational-pragmatic factors and the implementation of major structural forms of SBP, contrastive description of the structure and a hierarchy of communicative-pragmatic fields in the languages under analysis. Finally, the article reveals differences between the notions of equivalence and adequacy and describes possible relations between them in contrastive linguistic.

Key words: 
speech behavior
pattern
intercultural communication
contrastive linguistics
Russian
German
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