• English
  • Русский

Speech genre: the unit of product structuring of speech activity

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0).

The article discusses the problem of speech genre theory development. 

There are three specific areas that require either  extending interpretations of the speech genre concept, or imposing a new specializing term.

First, intergenre phenomena of administrative discourse remain outside speech genre. Then, the concept of genre is not relevant for discursive activity product analysis, because it is associated with oral and written text. Finally, in speech genre theory seems to be perspective study of the cognitive and psycholinguistic aspect.

A dual cognitive-communicative unit “speech tactics / tactical move” is suggested as a unit of speech activity product structuring. Its advantages are discussed: it allows to structure and model intergenre phenomena, gives the opportunity to analyze a discourse activity product of oral interpersonal  administrative communication, and takes into consideration the cognitive and psycholinguistic basis of speech activity.

Bibliography

Arutyunova N.D. Language and the world of man. [Yazyik i mir cheloveka]. Мoscow, 1998. 895 p.

Bahtin M.M. The problem of the text in linguistics, Philology and other Humanities. Experience of the philosophical analysis. [Problema teksta v lingvistike, filologii i drugih gumanitarnyih naukah. Opyit filosofskogo analiza]. Мoscow, 1979. 421 p.

Baranov A.G. Cogniotypicality of the text. To the problem of levels of abstraction textual activity. [Kogniotipichnost teksta. K probleme urovney abstraktsii tekstovoy deyatelnosti]. Zhanryi rechi – Speech genres. 1997. No. 1 225 p. Saratov.

Chernyavskaya V.E. The discourse of power and the power of discourse: problems of speech influence. [Diskurs vlasti i vlast diskursa: problemyi rechevogo vozdeystviya]. Мoscow, 2006. 136 p.

Dolinin K.A. Speech genres as means of organization of social interaction. [Rechevyie zhanryi kak sredstvo organizatsii sotsialnogo vzaimodeystviya]. Zhanryi rechi – Speech genres. 1999. No. 2. Pp. 65–78. Saratov.

Formanovskaya N.I. Speech interaction: communication and pragmatics. [Rechevoe vzaimodeystvie: kommunikatsiya i pragmatika]. Мoscow, 2007. 480 p.

Golodnov A.V. Linguo-pragmatic features of persuasive communication on the base of modern German-language advertising [Lingvopragmaticheskie osobennosti persuazivnoy kommunikatsii (na materiale sovremennoy nemetskoyazyichnoy reklamyi: Avtoref. dis. … kand. filol. nauk]. St.Petersburg, 2003. 16 p.

Gorbanevskiy M.V. Language conflict. [Yazyik konflikta]. Available at: http://expertizy.narod.ru.

Gorodetskiy B.Yu. From text linguistics to linguistics communication. [Ot lingvistiki teksta – k lingvistike obscheniya]. Yazyik i sotsialnoe poznanie – Language and social cognition. Мoscow, 1990. Pp. 39– 56.

Goyhman O.Y. Nadeina T.M. Speech communication. [Rechevaya kommunikatsiya]. Мoscow, 2006. 272 p.

Issers O.S. Communicative strategies and tactics of Russian speech. [Kommunikativnyie strategii i taktiki russkoy rechi]. Мoscow, 2006. 288 p.

Koltunova M.V. Conventionality as the basis of business communication. [Konventsionalnost kak osnova delovogo obscheniya: Dis. ... d-ra filol. nauk]. Мoscow, 2006. 286 p.

Mkrtyichyan S.V. Аdministrative communicative styles in stratified social discourse (on the base of Russian language). [Upravlencheskie kommunikativnyie stili v sotsialno stratifitsirovannom diskurse (na materiale russkogo yazyika): Dis. … dokt. filol. Nauk]. Tver, 2012. 411 p.

Romanov A.A. System analysis of regulative means of communication. [Sistemnyiy analiz regulyativnyih sredstv dialogicheskogo obscheniya: Avtoref. dis. … dokt. filol. nauk]. Мoscow, 1990. 38 p.

Ryitnikova Ya.T. Harmony and disharmony in an open family conversation. [Garmoniya i disgarmoniya v otkryitoy semeynoy beside]. Russkaya razgovornaya rech kak yavlenie gorodskoy kultury – Russian conversation as a phenomena of urban culture. Ekaterinburg, 1996. Pp. 94–115.

Sternin I.A. Introduction to speech influence. [Vvedenie v rechevoe vozdeystvie]. Voronezh, 2001. 252 p.

Suhih S.A. Speech interaction and strategy. [Rechevyie interaktsii i strategii]. Rechevoe obschenie i ego edinitsyi. – Verbal communication and its units. Kalinin, 1986. Pp. 71–76.

Vasilev L.G., Ankudinova A.I. Speechinfluencing strategy monologic. [Rechevozdeystvuyuschie monologicheskie strategii]. Tver, 2011. 34–35 pp.

Wierzbicka A. Speech genres. [Rechevyie zhanryi]. Zhanryi rechi – Speech genres. 1997. No. 1. pp. 34–48. Saratov.

Zernetskiy V.P. Linguistic aspects of the theory of speech activity. [Lingvisticheskie aspektyi teorii rechevoy deyatelnosti]. Kalinin, 1988. Pp. 36–41.

Full Text (PDF):
(downloads: 246)