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


prerevolutionary post cards

“My canary died. Come to us for Christmas”: The dynamics of the genre canon of a message in a postcard in diachrony and in ontogenesis (based on postcards written by children from the corpus “I am writing to you”)

The article features the speech genre “a message in a postcard” in Russian communicative practice of two periods: the period before 1917 Revolution and the Soviet period. The research is based on a subcorpus of 253 postcards written by children from the collection of postcards digital corpus “I am writing to you”. By observing the mastery of the genre canon by non-adult native speakers, we consider both the specifics of the speech genre and the dynamics of its changes that occurred at the turning point of two periods.