Abstract
The article is devoted to the place of research on speech genres in the paradigm of discourse analysis. Focus is brought to bear on the directions of discourse analysis which have much in common with the theory of speech genre problems, categorical apparatus or set of base units, as well as using speech genre methodology to solve their problems. It is shown that the main problem, combining discourse analysis and theory of speech genres, is structuring and parameterization of speech communication, and thus - search for basic models of structuring, which organize a production of speech and its interpretation. In this regard, discourse units as well as their location with respect to the genres in the general speech space are discussed. The communicative and cognitive aspects of these units are analyzed, the chain links are constructed, which correspond to the components of communicative concepts that have clear compositional, thematic and stylistic content: the standard structure of the communicative concept is a chain of “action/act ~ process / manner ~ role / type ~ genre ~ communicative tonality”, while in most chains the main components are speech genres. Much attention is paid to the discursive classification of speech genres: genres are discussed in different types of discourse.
Highlights
Modern discourse analysis is based on the concept of speech genre as one of the most effective explanatory mechanisms in the process of studying speech generation and interpretation
If we try to characterize the development of speech genres theory in the most general terms, we can say that, firstly, the theory of speech genres is in the process of great changes together with general scientific paradigm in linguistics; in almost every new scien
The name or type of the speech action can be on the forefront amongst the other names of communicative concepts: single and long duration, name of the process or genre name
Summary
Modern discourse analysis is based on the concept of speech genre (hereinafter — SG) as one of the most effective explanatory mechanisms in the process of studying speech generation and interpretation. These studies were carried out through external linguistic means, based on a deep understanding of units and system of relations, or significance of language inherent in the prior — system-structural — scientific paradigm. It is through the prism of these theories that linguists welcomed M.M. Bakhtin’s concept of speech genres: the first attempt of its practical use was a significant convergence of its provisions for colloquialisms and the theory of speech acts. Speech genre acts as a constitutive category of discourse and as a unit of discourse
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