Speech-genre semantics is a relatively new branch in genre studies, although it directly intersects with traditional problems of linguistics: it studies the reflection of the properties of discursive, speech-genre, and similar phenomena in the semantics of language units: from the organization of their immediate lexicalsemantic structure (which, in turn, is appropriately represented in the communicative-linguistic competence of people and is recorded when compiling dictionaries) to the features of distribution, syntactic and pragmatic valence, and oth