speech genre

The article presents analysis of the genre repertoire of electronic communication between a lecturer and a student, as one of the new areas of Internet communication, which has not been the subject of linguistic and genre analysis. The article offers and substantiates a classification of identified speech genres. The relevance of the topic is determined by the fact that this business form of communication is becoming preferable in modern pedagogical discourse due to numerous social and technological processes.

Based on the material of a corpus of short-format statements, the semantics and axiology of passion, as well as the discursive properties of aphorism, are studied. It is established that an aphorism does not have a clear definition based on a single feature and we can only talk about “family resemblance” as the proximity of some small-format text in terms of a set of features to the ideal of an aphoristic statement.

The article deals with the problem of variation of speech genres and blurring of their boundaries. The aim of the study is to determine the change of what parameters leads to the destruction of the annotation genre functioning in publishing discourse and what changes are acceptable and are a manifestation of intra-genre variation within one discourse. The study was based on 100 Russian publisherʼs abstracts of literary fiction and childrenʼs editions published in 2000–2024, collected by random sampling.

The paper deals with everyday omens as a special speech genre within the framework of prognostic discourse. Calendar and meteorological omens to a great extent reflect recurring objective circumstances, while everyday omens record mostly random coincidences of events. From the positions of scientific and religious worldviews, everyday omens are qualified as superstitions. The function of everyday omens is to build a simple picture of the world with prescriptions and explanations of mystical nature.

The paper examines a large language model (LLM) to recognize speech genres. Although artificial neural networks are effectively utilized in many important fields, they, however, have a serious drawback. The mechanism of their functioning is hidden from researchers; therefore, the results of their use do not get explanation. The purpose of the study is to reveal the basic mechanisms of functioning of the linguistic model LLM (Transformer) and thereby ensure the interpretability of the data it provides.

The article deals with the problem of the intradiscursive variability of the speech genre of the abstract. The article aims to identify the variability of the manifestation of the author's principle in the verbal genre of abstract functioning in academic discourse. 38 Russian-language abstracts to linguistic academic articles published in the journal “Genres of Speech” in 2023 and 34 Russian-language abstracts to biological academic articles published in the “Journal of General Biology” in 2022 were selected as the base of the study.

The visual space of a modern city and any other populated area is very diverse and rich, both with useful elements: signs, road signs, posters, street names, etc., and with the elements which change the appearance of streets in a negative way, namely the graphic damage to urban space or unauthorized graffiti, which is in the focus of this paper. The relevance of the present study is determined by the significance of studying various types of everyday written and speech activities within the city space.

This article deals with the etiquette speech genre “gratitude” in the Altai language. The article aims to establish and describe categorical universal and nationally specific features of the speech genre “gratitude” in the Altai language. Categorical signs of gratitude are analyzed in line with psychological, social and communicative paradigms. The article describes the national and cultural aspects of the speech genre “gratitude” in various cultures (English, German, Chinese and Russian).

The paper deals with the speech genre “wish” treated as emotional and volitive communicative event, its meaning is an expressed wish of implementation of something good or bad for somebody. Grammatically, this genre is a kind of mood named “optative”. It is a speech act describing a certain situation which implies an emotional reaction of a person. The reaction of an addressee for a good wish is usually expressed in words or gestures of gratitude. In case of a bad wish expressed directly it merges with a quarrel and a reverse bad wish.

The author attempts to explore the threat as a speech genre of verbal aggression. It is argued that the threat is most often found in the texts of modern online-communication, the characteristics of which are close to a synthetic oral-written form of communication and the colloquial genre. It is emphasized that in modern studies the threat is researched from a legal and linguistic point of view. The author proves the idea that there are two main types of threat statements – a threat-warning, including a causal action, and a threatpunishment.