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Steksova T. I., Lavrent'eva E. V. Variants of the warning speech genre and their modus indicators. Speech Genres, 2022, vol. 17, iss. 3 (35), pp. 194-204. DOI: 10.18500/2311-0740-2022-17-3-35-194-204, EDN: VNRACM

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Variants of the warning speech genre and their modus indicators

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Steksova Tatiana Ivanovna, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University
Lavrent'eva Elizaveta Vladimirovna, Siberian Transport University
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In the article, the authors refer to the history of the study of preventive statements, where the semantics of the notice and warning are not distinguished. The genre approach allowed the authors to qualify the warning and the notice as a diffuse zone in the system of speech genres, and the warning is considered as a poly-intentional speech genre and it is proposed to distinguish between two variants of the genre based on the identification of the leading intention. An imperative warning, synonymous with a notice, can function as an indirect threat, and an informative warning can be used as a speech genre of denunciation. The variability of the warning genre is manifested not only in the dominance of one of the intentions, but also in the ways of speech embodiment. The genre model and possible syntactic structures in which the warning is embodied are considered. It is noted that the complete semantic model of an utterance in the warning genre contains a modus component, which is a marker of the genre, and a dictum component, which reveals the content of the warning. The dominance of one intention causes differences in the linguistic embodiment, which are manifested in the frequency implicitness of the expression of the second intention, as well as in the choice of the modal indicator of the genre. The authors focused their attention on the modus marker of the genre, since the dictum component, which reveals the content of the warning, has repeatedly become the subject of study and is described in detail in different languages, and the mode marker of the genre most often remained outside the field of view of researchers. A wider range of modus indicators is noted for an informative warning, and the choice of a specific indicator is determined by discourse.

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Received: 
15.09.2021
Accepted: 
15.11.2021
Published: 
31.08.2022