International journal
Speech Genres
ISSN 2311-0759 (Online)
ISSN 2311-0740 (Print)

constitution

CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION as a speech genre of the nuclear zone of the Russian legislative discourse

The CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION is the main speech genre of the nuclear zone of the Russian legislative discourse, which by the criterion of legal force takes the central place in the system of legal discourse and is crucial for the formation of the “linguistic legal consciousness” of our society. The premise of modeling is the notion of the legislative discourse, which is understood as a hierarchically arranged system generalized through speech genres of normative legal act texts.

To the Question of Genre Features of Preambles to Constitutions

The article presents the results of a study of the genre parameters of the preamble to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and preambles to the constitutions of the republics that are part of the Russian Federation. The following aspects are considered as genre parameters (genre­forming factors): (a) rele­vance to the text of a law of a certain sub-­genre type. (b) subject matter. (c) communicative func­tions. (d) subject composition (images of the author, addressor and addressee). (e) spatio­-temporal and other circumstantial characteristics.