speech genre

The article studies counting rhymes in Lezghin children’s folklore. The purpose of the paper is to establish the significance and importance of counting rhymes in children’s social development and game discourse, to highlight them as the main component of the game action, to identify specific features of counting rhymes as a speech genre. It is noted that counting rhymes are a genre variety of game poetry of Lezghin children’s folklore.

The research is based on psychological essays of a psychologist, philosopher, and writer Anna Kiryanova, posted on the Zen platform in 2018–2025. Speech genre innovations and speech genre synthesis are analyzed from the point of view of axiology, didacticism, and directiveness.

Narratives of traditional folk culture bearers about the war can be regarded as an independent genre variety (subgenre) of autobiographical story, for which personal principle is crucial. Rural residents’ stories about the war are marked by egocentricity which characterizes dialect speech in general. War stories represent stable types of dialect narrative with thematic unity, common semantic and narrative organization, and pragmatic principles. The conceptual basis of war stories is the theme of personal suffering.

The article presents the study of gestural composition in Anton Chekhov’s short story “Enemies”. The study provides a definition according to which modern linguistic science understands “non-verbal means of communication”.

The article presents the results of the linguopragmatic analysis of three evaluative speech genres of the Internet communication: video reaction, trash review and nostalgic review. The study is based on Russian and English YouTube video blogs. Since video reactions, trash reviews and nostalgic reviews originated from the speech genre “Internet review”, their communicative purpose is to evaluate the quality of some content. Nevertheless, all three genres have a number of specific characteristics.

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.

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.

The article considers online conman discourse as a special type of marketing discursive practice: its communicative purpose, agents and clients are defined; the main speech genres and communicative strategies and tactics, which are implemented in them, are singled out and analyzed through the prism of Tony Robbin’s marketing sales funnel; the inexpediency of its attribution to fraudulent discourse is substantiated.

The article deals with the analysis of reader comments in American media discourse to identify the signs of privacy and publicity in this genre. The relevance of the study of reader comments is due to their significant role in the formation of the public sphere.

The speech act of refusal is an undesirable speech act that can cause negative emotions in the interlocutor and requires mitigation tools in order to maintain effective and conflict-free communication. The mitigation tools are seen as acts or pragmatic moves that accompany refusal to communicatively support the addressee and, taken as a whole, form a speech genre. Like other speech acts and genres, refusal has ethnocultural specificities, which if ignored can lead to sociopragmatic failures in intercultural communication.