speech genres

Riddle is a playful representation of a known object, figuratively coding its designation and assuming the direct name actualization of this object in a recipient's reaction. Riddles refer to the folklore genre, the basic functions of which are entertainment and enlightenment. These functions are expressed in constitutive features of the riddle and its textual construction. The article focuses on such English riddle features, as indirectness, axiological and heuristic game character, fascinativeness, as well as manipulative potential.

The article is devoted to the autograph as a genre of natural writing speech. The object of researcher’s attention is presented by memorable inscriptions (signatures), handwritten by authors on fiction books. Texts-autographs are realized through natural written activity of a person, possess typical features peculiar to genres of natural written speech in general (according to N.B. Lebedeva’s classification). It allows to relate autograph to this particular type of genres. The leading genre-formative parameter of texts-autographs is their manuscript nature.

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the thesis about the implicit typological connection of three fiction-writing modes (drama, epic and lyric poetry) with the basic kinds of communicative strategies (informative, phatic and “autocommunicative”). Epic, lyric poetry and drama are viewed as three substantial modes (or vectors) of verbal and non-verbal statements. The concept of “speech genres” covers a subordinate to it concept of “fiction-writing modes”.

The M. M. Bakhtin’s work on speech genres is wellknown. However this problem was examined by other outstanding Russian scholar A. A. Reformatskiy in his book «Technical editing of a book. Theory and method of work» published in 1933 (Bakhtin’s work was written twenty years later). Unlike Bakhtin Reformatskiy studied only a part of genres – genres of books – but his classification was more detailed and fixed main features of different genres depending on the aims of their publication.

Review of the international conference ”Speech Genres and “Speech Genres””, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of humanities education in Saratov State University and the 20th anniversary of the international scientific journal “Speech Genres” (Saratov State University, 27–29 November 2017). The conference was attended by researchers from Saratov, Veliky Novgorod, Volgograd, Voronezh, Hanover (Germany), Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Minsk (Belarus), Moscow, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Penza, Perm, Samara, St.

The article deals with the use of metaphors in the context of speech genres of emotional impact on the addressee. The theoretical substantiation of these genres with the description of their features and means of realizing the speaker’s intent are presented, taking into account whether the desired emotional impact is positive or negative.

The review of the international conference «Speech Genres and “Speech Genres”», dedicated to the 100th anniversary of humanities education in Saratov State University and the 20th anniversary of the international scientific journal “Speech Genres” (Saratov State University, 27–29 November 2017). The conference was attended by researchers from Saratov, Veliky Novgorod, Volgograd, Voronezh, Hanover (Germany), Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Minsk (Belarus), Moscow, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Penza, Perm, Samara, St.

The article considers a special place of the self-presentation genre in the poetry of the Russian futurism. this place was predetermined by the overall style of the epoch and the counterintuitive communicative strategy of the new poetic school, the connection between the self-presentation and advertisement genres is traced.

The article regards the problem of speech genre’s revelation in the mind of language speaker. In this respect, it proposes the complex approach to the investigation of speech genres which relies on the use of various sources of material including the data of associative experiment presented in the associative dictionary. The value of associative data is fully discussed in relation with such problems as the acquisition of speech genres by language speaker and their actual range in what they call “the genre competence”.

The paper deals with genre characteristics of network discourse treated as communication in social networks. Constitutive features of this communication include (1) a communicative community of people who share mutual interests and have access to a common electronic resource, (2) multimodal semiotic nature of messages having visual, audial and textual components, (3) opportunity of immediate responses to any message, (4) a short communicative distance with merging of public and private formats of interaction.