Исследования отдельных жанров

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 article presents the results of analysis of narrative genres of oral medical discourse and differentiation of their functional types by linguopragmatic and structural characteristics. The narrative genres typical of medical discourse «doctor – patient» are narrative and the story proper. A reduced form of story proper is a compressed story. It appears that the varieties of story from the point of view of intentional orientation are informative, interactional and phatic narratives.

This paper is devoted to studying of the essays by the contemporary school students and is included in linguocultural area of linguistics. The analysis of works sent to the verbal proficiency contest has shown that the texts under study are strictly patterned according to the standards of school compositions.

The article is dedicated to cognitive representation of discourse and genre interrelation of two phenomenon of legal and business discourses: the document with the title "Case" and the very nomination – the word and the concept "business". The author shows that conceptual foundation of these phenomena is two mental categories which are closely-related in conceptualization of social existence: these are actional nature of social relations (business, affairs) and social conception of an individual (person, personality).

The research is devoted to the comparative analysis of banter in English and Russian lingua-cultures. The comparative analysis of the given type is being done for the first time in the home linguistics. The short analysis of the works by home and foreign linguists devoted to the studying of distinctive characteristics of banter has been done in the research.

This article is devoted to the analysis of the speech genre of «blackmail» in the interpersonal everyday communication. We specify the concept of «blackmail» in relation to the everyday communication in comparison with the related concept used in the legal discourse. The paper defines blackmail as a kind of manipulative psycho-emotional impact intended to obtain the benefits by means of threatening to harm the recipient.

Modern linguists are trying to solve the problem of determining the boundaries of the genre, its variability or transition to another genre. But until now this issue remains controversial. The article is devoted to the problem of the functioning of the speech genre in various spheres of communication.

The article deals with the controversial problem of  variability in the speech genre. Briefly, different approaches to understanding the variant in linguistic literature are highlighted. On the example of comparison of well-studied appeal genres in political discourse and slogan in the advertising discourse, they are offered an understanding of them as variants of one genre. The authors’ point of view is justified by the coincidence of the communicative goal (illocutionary function) and a minor modification of other genre-forming features.

Russian frankness in a linguocultural aspect has been researched by some Russian linguists, such as E. M. Vereschagin, V. V. Dementyev, etc. A vast list of literature referred to this issue can be found in the dissertation of M. M. Naumova. The article suggests considering frankness as one of the constants of Russian linguoculture through the speech genre of refusal. The above mentioned genre is a large communicative phenomenon. Categorical refusal is a speech genre which requires frankness leading to effective communication.

The article deals with recent problems of correlation of a speech genre and culture and fits into the context of modern researches in cognitive, dialect genre studies and cognitive dialectology. A key concept for Russian culture “Life”, functioning in dialect autobiographical texts, recorded in Tomsk region from the middle of the 20th century till the present time, is described in the article. These texts are considered as a speech genre. Ideas about life, which do not change or change over time under the influence of certain factors, are identified.