Speech Genres and Discourse: Genres Study in Discourse Analysis Paradigm

• Main Author: Vadim V Dementyev
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2016-12-01
• Series: Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN
• Subjects: теория речевых жанров; дискурс-анализ; параметризация речи; классификация; коммуникативные концепты
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/15151

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.