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


Общие проблемы теории речевых жанров

The speech genres of non-verbal communication

The possibility of speech genristic approach to non-verbal communication is discussed in the article. Traditionally, only verbal forms of sentences are regarded as speech genres. However, the contemporary theory of speech communication differenciates  verbal and non-verbal speech. Therefore,  the speech genres may be non-verbal too, that is well traced in nowadays speech interaction, mainly on the level of everyday communication.

Saussure and Bakhtin

F. de Saussure determined rigid limits of priorities in linguistics and separated language from speech that has no system in his opinion. M. M. Bakhtin in his work «The Problem of Speech Genres» accepted the differentiation of language and speech (utterance in his system of terms) unlike V. N. Voloshinov but he considered the concentration on the problems of language insufficient and the study of speech necessary. In the field of speech he singled out the most stable component – speech genres that are set to speakers together with language.

About genre text categories

The article proves the introduction of genre category concept into the speech genres analysis which helps to describe the linguistic definiteness of the genres. Genre categories are distinguished not on grammatical, but on an extralinguistic, intentional basis. Three types of categories – dialogism, illocution, and referentiality are offered for description of speech genres. Each category has its field the of different language units, composition methods, and nonverbal means.

Axiological genristics: aspects of a problem «evaluation and genre»

The article is devoted to one of the most important and obvious aspects of speech genres – relation of speech genres and evaluation. This issue is im-portant not only for the theory of speech genres, but also for linguistics in general, although it is far from being solved. We discuss the key concept of this problem – “form of evaluation” – a kind of genre norms that determine, on the one hand, the pragmatic, stylistic, linguistic modeling of evaluative actions, on the other – the differences between adjacent evaluative genres.

Linguocognitive typology of speech genres: On the basis of an essay.

This article suggests a comprehensive analysis of the complex speech genres as a way to study the variability of their model and as an instrument of developing the general classification of complex speech genres.

Speech genres in Russian idiomatics (semantic and conceptual aspects)

The article gives a description of Russian idioms, including in their composition the nominations of speech genres. the degree of being in demand for certain genres in the formation of Russian idiomatics has been revealed, as well as the degree of structuredness of such names.

ABOUT THE PLACE OF THE CONCEPT OF “GENRE” IN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE: ON THE MATERIAL OF EXPRESSION “IN GENRE…” IN THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL CORPUS

The article studies contexts with the expression “in the genre” in the Russian National Corpus (RNC) to clarify the lexicalized aspects of the communicativespeech phenomena in genre typification. There are two substantial groups of contexts: 1) traditional terminological “Aristotelian” meaning of “in the genre” (meaning that genres exist in artistic creation and art in general). 2) other meanings: a) desemantized “in the genre”, approaching the semantics of the preposition.

WHAT HAS THE COMING DAY IN STRORE FOR US? (To the Question of Modern Scientific Paradigm in Humanitarian Knowledge)

This article presents modern scientific paradigm developed in Russia at the turn of XX–XXI centuries. The author observes its main characteristics – integrative and holistic character. These are believed to be presupposed by a range of external and internal factors. The author also suggests a new stage in the development of scientific thought – the stage of neo-post-positivism, which corresponds to post-nonclassicism within the framework of the philosophy of science, and formulates some of its postulates as well.

ON DIGLOSSIA OF GENRES IN CHURCH AND RELIGIOUS STYLE OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

The article examines the language situation in modern church and religious discourse and the specifics of religious style genres in contemporary Russian language. It also raises some of the key problems of Russian philology on the nature of diglossia, its origins, as well as specifics of Slavic and Russian diglossia in the Russian linguistic culture during its various historic periods, and place and role of Church Slavonic throughout the history of Russian language.

ON A SPEECH GENRE IDENTITY

The article is focused on the illocutive function of speech utterance as its genre identification criterion. Various approaches to the problem of genre identity are characterized briefly. The emphasis is put on polyintentionality of the communication unit, complexity and multidimensionality of its genre form. Considering M. M. Bakhtin’s ideas, illocution is described as normative (for a subject) initial direction of the speech design development. According to authors’ hypothesis, regular actualization of the set of illocutive elements (A.

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