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


speech genre

Assessment of doctor’s communication skills and professional tact as a genre-forming feature of a review of medical services

In online reviews of medical services, the consumer’s assessment of the doctors’ communication skills and their professional tact is an essential feature of the genre. According to the target audience, this parameter is vital for the overall assessment of the quality of medical service. The empirical base represents the reviews of doctors posted on the websites of specialized online publications and forums. Based on the analysis, positive and negative patients’ assessments of the doctor’s communication skills and professional tact were identified.

Politeness of a doctor in the mirror of consumer reviews

The article examines the politeness of medical workers – how it is reflected in the genre of reviews on the consumption of medical services published on the Internet. Methodologically, the work fits into the traditions of discourse studies, semantic and stylistic studies. Theoretically, the article is based on the ideas of media linguistics, discourse studies, genre studies, semantic syntax and stylistics.

Speech genre “zamechanie” on the scale of “politeness – anti-politeness”

The article analyzes major linguistic and pragmatic properties of utterances that native Russian speakers classify as ‘zamechanie’ (roughly, critical remark). The purpose of the research is twofold: firstly, to answer the question whether ‘zamechanie’ can be seen as a speech genre and, secondly, to determine its position on the “politeness – anti-politeness” scale. The analysis is based on the data from the Russian National Corpus and recordings of oral speech collected by the author.

The boundaries of (anti-)politeness in the speech genre of scientific review

The article examines scholarly reviews in terms of communicative categories of politeness and antipoliteness, as well as the strategies associated with them. It offers a generalized description of the scholarly review as a speech genre, highlighting key parameters for analyzing (anti-)politeness: the roles of participants, communicative-pragmatic relations between them, and the conflict potential inherent in the critical evaluation of another scholar’s work. The authors propose adapting G.

Transformation of the genre “public apology”

The article is devoted to the characteristics of the genre of public apology in the semantic and pragmatic aspect in the Russian mass media space. The choice of the subject is due to the growing popularity and increasing frequency of apologies made through media and social networks. This trend can be explained by changes in the socio-cultural landscape and the transformation of societal value orientations.

Genre characteristics of “Notebooks” by I. Ilf

The paper considers the speech genre “Journalist’s Notebook” on the material of Ilya Ilf’s “Notebooks”. The basic intensional feature of this genre is the fixation of observations and reflections expressed in words and statements noticed by the attentive and ironic writer. The journalistic notebook is a set of vivid speech examples recorded as material for further use in journalistic articles and fiction texts.

Speech genres of electronic communication between lecturer and student

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.

Inebriety of the soul: Aphoristica of passion (semantics, pragmatics, genre properties)

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.

Variability and conditions of abstract genre destruction in publishing discourse

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.

Speech-genre characteristics of everyday omens

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.

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