Abstract
Discourse Linguistics, an applied field of research focused on complex contentmacrostructures open to multiple transformations in functioning, currently raises such a research problem as how to cope with its multidimensional units staying focused on its holistic nature. For this integrative methodological platforms are introduced and tested. The authors, accepting discourse community representations built within the composites of the image-making discourse type as a forefront research object, introduce and verify such kind of a platform both theoretically and practically (on the discourse of respondents who represent one of currently built Belarusian discourse communities). The approaches inbuilt into the platform are Tartu-Moscow semiotic school (Lotman 2005, 205-226), French school of discourse analysis (Maingueneau 2002, 185-190), the causal-genetic approach of discourse modeling / CGA (Oukhvanova 2017, 5-16), and Swales’ approach to discourse community research (2016).
Highlights
Discourse Linguistics or extended linguistics (Dictionnaire 2002), which can be treated as macrolinguistics as it accepts types of discourses and discourse communities as holistic functional macrostructures built on the same functional primitives
While collecting a representative data for reconstructing and commenting on Project discourse community and its image-produced discourse practices, we focused on the categories of contextualisation, textual action, interaction and orientation
The idea of introducing Discourse Linguistics as macrolinguistics helps focusing on adequate methods, which, making macro categories a priority, keeps pace of micro and meso categories of discourse as still influential content-building elements
Summary
Discourse Linguistics or extended linguistics (Dictionnaire 2002), which can be treated as macrolinguistics as it accepts types of discourses and discourse communities as holistic functional macrostructures built on the same functional primitives This idea of discourse dynamics and transformational character has been studied since 1993 (Oukhvanova 1993, 10-27) coming to the hypothesis that discourse communities are built on discourse types and can be studied . Merged in case of functioning they produced 8 functional primitives (composites) of discourse which, organized in 4-D clusters, form confronted (and, at the same time, complementary) types of discourse (Oukhvanova 2017, 12-13). Among such dichotomies is the dichotomy image-making and identity-building types of discourses
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