The article deals with Orthodox genre specifics, establishes its position within the religious discourse, and identifies the characteristics of the integrative correlations with other general cultural and scientific discursive paradigms. The authors have identified the Orthodox parables genre constructive features and described the common and differential characteristics in comparison with literary parables.
The paper deals with linguistic and cultural approach to the study of speech genres. Speech genre as a complex communicative phenomenon can be characterized taking into account its conceptual, script, type, plot and culture-specific content.