Abstract
In the article the approaches to the problem of political discourse speech genres differentiation are discussed based on the comparative analysis of the German and Russian public parliamentary speech authentic samples. The special status of the public speech phenomenon in parliamentary communication and its conditionality by parliamentary regulations are discussed. The communicative roles of plenary sessions’ participants in Germany and Russia are described. In both parliaments, public parliamentary speech is exercised in a dialogue form, managed and controlled by the president of the Bundestag / presiding plenary session. The existence of common political goals of German and Russian public parliamentary communication proves the expediency of its comprehensive comparative study, taking into account extralinguistic and linguistic characteristics of public parliamentary speeches. The statements, representing the German and Russian public parliamentary speech, form a set of institutional genres, the emergence and functioning of which are predetermined by the parliamentary regulations. In both parliaments, they include a report, a statement, a question, and a reply, presented in several intragenre varieties, with specific national variants. Each of these genres is characterized by the use of specific methods of language expression, emotional utterances, rhetorical and polemical techniques.
Highlights
The political life intensification happening in the society and its undoubted influence on the forms and means of mass communication provide a keen interest in studying political communication discourse
Parliamentary discourse reflects the language, and cultural and historical, ideological, intellectual, social and other types of native speakers’ experience. It proves the relevance of a parliamentary discourse problem in general and the relevance of this work performed in the aspect of comparative study of the speech and genre characteristics of German and Russian parliamentary discourse
In the late 20-th century the speech genres were studied by scientists from the viewpoint of text theory [11,12]
Summary
The political life intensification happening in the society and its undoubted influence on the forms and means of mass communication provide a keen interest in studying political communication discourse. Parliamentary discourse reflects the language, and cultural and historical, ideological, intellectual, social and other types of native speakers’ experience. It proves the relevance of a parliamentary discourse problem in general and the relevance of this work performed in the aspect of comparative study of the speech and genre characteristics of German and Russian parliamentary discourse. Public speech communication between parliamentary discourse participants is exercised in the State Duma of the Russian Federation and the Bundestag of Germany, mainly, in an oral form of a polylogue (dialogue). Beard notes that linguistics can and has to bring its contribution to the theory of language “institutionalism” [1]
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