Pragmalinguistic Features of Informative Documentary Texts in Military Discourse (Based on Documents of the Great Patriotic War)

Vestnik of Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series Humanitarian and Social Sciences ◽

10.37482/2687-1505-v105 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 87-98

Author(s):

Anastasiya Osipchuk ◽

Keyword(s):

Written Communication ◽

Military Discourse ◽

The Past ◽

Speech Genres ◽

Great Patriotic War ◽

The Future ◽

Speech Genre ◽

Content Factor ◽

Informative Component

This article describes genre-forming features of informative documentary texts of military discourse, such as communicative goal, author’s image, addressee’s image, event content, factor of the future, and factor of the past. The following terms are studied here: documentary text, speech genre, and informative speech genres. The documentary text is considered as a kind of а speech genre, realized in writing. In the course of the research, the most frequent informative documents of military discourse (Great Patriotic War period) were selected, i.e. summary, dispatch, and report. Having analysed the definitions of the abovementioned speech genres and the corresponding documentary texts, the author was able to determine their communicative goals, single out the main (inform) and additional (ask, suggest) genre-forming intentions. It was revealed that the speech addressee in informative speech genres can be both an executive officer and a group of persons, information about them (detailed or not) being presented in the initial and final formulas of the document. The author’s image in the main texts of documents is either implicit or manifested with the help of performative verbs. The speech addressee is abstract and is only indicated in the initial formula of the document, in most cases by the person’s position. Informative documents should meet the following requirements: impersonal and multi-event nature, presentation of the informative component by events of the past and the present, creation of a futural perspective in texts with incentive intentions. The analysis of the factor of the past showed that the summary and the analytical report are initiative genres of written communication, while the dispatch and the operations report are reactive speech genres. Having studied the factor of the future parameter, the author concluded that informative speech genres underlie other informative and directive genres. For instance, dispatches and reports are created on the basis of summaries, whose main intention is to inform. The texts of dispatches and reports, having additional intentions of asking and suggesting, form the basis for directive documentary texts.

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Functioning of Clichéd Constructions in the Speech Genre of Cinema Announcement (based on Internet Movie Announcements of Indian Films)

International Journal “Speech Genres” ◽

10.18500/2311-0740-2020-4-28-310-316 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 310-316

Author(s):

Anand Kumar Khemka ◽

Keyword(s):

Genre Studies ◽

The Internet ◽

Special Focus ◽

Descriptive Model ◽

The Past ◽

Speech Genres ◽

The Future ◽

Speech Genre

The article touches upon current problems of speech genres functioning on the Internet and fits into the context of modern research in the field of virtual genre studies. The article discusses the speech genre of the movie announcement and describes the means of its language embodiment. The research is focused on the analysis of clichéd constructions and is based on 250 Indian film announcements written in Russian and posted on Indiankino.net. The author offers a descriptive model of the movie announcement speech genre which includes the following parameters: the communicative goal and type of speech genre, the image of the author and the addressee, the image of the future and the image of the past, the composition of movie announcement, the type of dictum content, means of its linguistic embodiment, non-verbal means. There is a special focus on the use of clichéd constructions in all compositional parts of the analyzed texts (name of the film, exposition, plot of the film, denouement). The research has shown that clichés function in every compositional element. The author singles out the main functions of clichéd constructions in the speech genre of the movie announcement: persuading function, advertising function, as well as text-building and genre-forming functions.

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Status in Social Networks as a Speech Genre

Postmodern Openings ◽

10.18662/po/12.1/250 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 128-140

Author(s):

Svitlana Formanova ◽

Liudmyla Gusak ◽

Tetiana Vorobiova ◽

Ruslana Savchuk ◽

Olena Dorofieieva ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Written Communication ◽

Social Content ◽

Virtual Communication ◽

Promising Direction ◽

Visual Elements ◽

The Social ◽

Speech Genres ◽

Speech Genre ◽

Theoretical Foundations

Modern linguistics is characterized by the establishment and formation of a new promising direction, based on anthropocentric theory of speech genres (TSG). The popularity of this direction lies in the interest of the scientists in the phenomenon of virtual communication, which has a certain structure and differs in mechanisms of influence on the social content. The multidimensionality and richness of genre forms determine the need for a diverse approach to the study of speech genres in modern genology. The aim of the article is to study and analyze the theory of speech genres in modern linguistics. The author presents the basic theoretical foundations of the study of the theory of speech genres. Taking into account the achievements of modern studies, the concept of speech genres is analyzed, features and functions of the visual elements of the speech genre are described. It is proved that the modern speech genre and its variety the virtual speech genre are an informational and communicative environment in which there is a certain styling, sphere of communication, speech behavior. The speech genre and the virtual speech genre belong to the written communication and rely on the fullest use of lexical, grammatical, graphic, and media means of speech, which foresees certain adjustments, as well as it differs by the form of dialogue and monologue.

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Academic article: Trends in model changes

International Journal “Speech Genres” ◽

10.18500/2311-0740-2021-2-30-90-100 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 90-100

Author(s):

Elena V. Buzalskaia ◽

Keyword(s):

Information Presentation ◽

The Past ◽

Scientific Paradigms ◽

Time Period ◽

Speech Genres ◽

Speech Genre ◽

Western European ◽

Volume Characteristics

The article aims to determine the changes in the model of the speech genre of the Russian academic article in the field of humanities over the past 120 years. Methodologically, the analysis is focused mainly on identifying cognitive (logical-structural), pragmalinguistic (identifying the leading speech strategies) and formal (the form, article sections, text volume) characteristics of articles. The research suggests that during the analyzed time period, divided into four parts (1900–1930, 1930–1960, 1960–1990, 1990–2020), this speech genre has acquired the features of a hypergenre due to the fact that the following mandatory elements were included into the model: an Abstract, Information about the author, and Keywords. According to the analysis, one can see a specific trajectory in the formation of a model of a Russian academic article genre, the strengthening of national ways of information presentation and addressing in contrast to the enhancement of formal indicators. The obtained data is confirmed by the analysis of the frequency of speech strategies implementation (analytical, characterizing, modeling, methodological, classifying, reviewing, problem stating, descriptive, informing) and the analysis of the peripheral speech genres included into the article – affiliation (gratitude, appreciation), evaluation (criticism, approval, reproach), reflexive (justification, reference to authority), and prognostic (forecast, recommendation, suggestion) ones. Fluctuation in their frequency reflects internal trends related to historical causes and changes in scientific paradigms. Thus, the results of the research on the academic article speech genre in the field of humanities indicate that the unification of the Russian and Western European (Scopus) models of this speech genre is not inevitable.

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