speech event

The article offers the analysis of the communicative potential of the silent scene as a universal phenomenon in view of the speech genre theory. A silent scene is understood as a widely spread speech genre event, during which there appears a speechless psychological effect of perceiving puzzling unexpectedness. The author analyzes structural and functional properties of a silent scene, its semantic horizons and forms of its implementation in speech and fiction.

The article studies a speech genre of an expert report. The study focuses on the realization of the most significant genre-forming feature – the communicative goal of an expert report. Scientific novelty is connected with the fact that an expert report is studied in the context of being a result of speech activity; within the theory of speech genres and communicative linguistics. The article focuses on the basic characteristics of the genre, its communicative goal-setting peculiarities, and the influence of an expert report type on the communicative goal realization.

The phenomenon of «Total dictation» (the annual educational event of the Russian language literacy testing) is analyzed in the article from the point of view of its communicative and speech genre characteristics: communicative roles, intentions, communicative mode, communicative values, structural and semantic components.