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

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Variability in the manifestation of authorship in academic abstracts: Comparison of humanitarian and natural science discourses

The article deals with the problem of the intradiscursive variability of the speech genre of the abstract. The article aims to identify the variability of the manifestation of the author's principle in the verbal genre of abstract functioning in academic discourse. 38 Russian-language abstracts to linguistic academic articles published in the journal “Genres of Speech” in 2023 and 34 Russian-language abstracts to biological academic articles published in the “Journal of General Biology” in 2022 were selected as the base of the study.

Метафора как концептуальное основание жанра травелога (на материале путевых заметок Н.И. Греча)

Актуальность исследования жанра травелога связана с его растущей популярностью в современном обществе, постоянно увеличивающимся количеством публикаций в данном жанре. Основы жанра в русской литературе были заложены писателями XIX века, в связи с чем представляется интересным анализ произведения известного писателя, филолога, переводчика и путешественника Н.И. Греча – травелога «Парижские письма с заметками о Дании, Германии, Голландии и Бельгии», опубликованного в 1847 году.

The interaction of the categories of expressiveness and evaluativity in personal genres of the US media discourse

The aim of the given research is to elucidate the correlation between lexical stylistic (expressive) devices and their contextual evaluative meanings in the genres of blog and column of the US media space. The categories of expressiveness and evaluativity are the most essential for adequate understanding and interpretation of modern media in the context of technological convergence, information exchange speed increase, tangible transformation of genre systems, and increased subjectivity.

“Lurkmore.ru” vs. “Wikipedia” = “informally” vs. “formally”?

In the article two fundamentally different varieties of well-known in the modern Russian-language Internet genre of anonymous collective encyclopedia – Russian Wikipedia and Lurkmore.ru – have been discussed. Originally created as a carnival, a postmodern parody of Wikipedia, Lurkmore.ru develops some new traits, such as judgmental subjectivity, arising from the desire of authors to demonstrate not only their creativity, but also sincerity, courage and freedom. But the main feature of Lurkmore.ru, according to the author, appears to be informality.