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Moskvin V. P. The speech genre of chreia: Historical background and typology. Speech Genres, 2015, no. 2(12), pp. 96-104. DOI: 10.18500/2311-0740-2015-2-12-96-104

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The speech genre of chreia: Historical background and typology

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Moskvin Vasily Pavlovich, Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University
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The paper explores various types of chreia (declarative, responsive, scholastic , etc.) as a didactic genre. These various types include those that are still unresearched in the Russian linguistic literature, e.g., e.g., chriod, ethology, double chreia, and others This language phenomenon is analyzed and systematized and its correlation with a system of adjacent categories is specified. Chreia is juxtaposed to a) enres, such as gnome, parable, fable, and proverb. b) figures of speech, primarily to description and allegory. The historical background of chreia is studied and clarified on the basis of antique (Greek and Latin) sources.

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08.06.2015