narration

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 article presents the results of analysis of narrative genres of oral medical discourse and differentiation of their functional types by linguopragmatic and structural characteristics. The narrative genres typical of medical discourse «doctor – patient» are narrative and the story proper. A reduced form of story proper is a compressed story. It appears that the varieties of story from the point of view of intentional orientation are informative, interactional and phatic narratives.

In this work the attention on a variety of genres of the prosaic works published in one of “thick” magazines of centenary prescription – “eserovsky” orientation “Precepts” is fixed. From the genre party the art and fictional structure of this periodical only beginning to enter in sight of literary critics wasn’t considered yet. Thus, the relevance of the announced subject is obvious.