«Чистосердечное признание» в институциональной и бытовой коммуникации: речевой жанр или речевой поступок

Abstract

The article views the specific communicative situation “frank confession” in institutional (legal) and personality-oriented (everyday) discourses. The author attempts to determine its genre affiliation in the discourses. Frank confession in legal discourse is a speech genre, which is addressed to the investigative bodies, it is characterized by a certain compositional structure, the accuracy of designation, concreteness, conciseness, standardization of presentation, the use of legal terminology and the absence of semantic ambiguity and expressive-emotional language means. Its communicative purpose is to outline the events and criminal actions committed by the author of the confession, to indicate the circumstances and information about other participants in the crime. Frank confession in everyday discourse is a speech action that varies in the degree of sincerity/frankness, does not have a strictly formal structure, correlates with three main types of actualization – a statement about guilt, an honest answer or a truthful utterance. In both discourses, there is a desemantization of the nominee’s attributive characteristic ‘frank’ found. The collocation «frank confession» functions as a term in legal discourse, it is conventionalized in everyday discourse, in which it is approximately equal to speech stamps that have lost their original connotation.