speech genre studies

The article examines the problem of modern genre studies related to the methodological crisis caused by the discrepancy between classical approaches to the challenges of natural and digital communication. The authors identify a number of key problems: terminological instability (the use of pseudo-terms such as “flirting”, “prayer” as scientific concepts, interdisciplinary eclecticism (different interpretations of the genre in linguistics, literary studies, journalism) and methodological rigidity inherited from the essentialist paradigm.

One of the open challenges of modern genre studies is the problem associated with the description of dialogical speech genres. Despite the existence of a significant number of linguistic papers dealing with the description of various dialogical genres, there is an urgent need for developing an ultimate methodology for describing dialogical speech genres as units of dialogical speech in modern genre studies. The urgency of the research is determined by its inclusion in the problematic field of speech genre studies.