Speech Genre
Speech genres are relatively stable types of utterances with thematic content, style, and compositional structure developed in a particular field. The richness and diversity of speech genres are limitless because the various possibilities of human activity are endless and because each area of activity contains a repertoire of speech genres that differ and grow with the development and complexity of a particular area. The category of speech genres should involve short lines or daily dialogues (and they are highly diverse depending on the topic, situation, and participants), everyday story, writing, short standard military order, thoughtful and detailed order, enough diverse repertoire of business documents, diverse world of comments (in the broadest sense of the word: social, political). The problem of speech genres also includes various forms of scientific expression and all literary genres (from proverbs to multi-volume novels) [Bakhtin, p. 60-61].
The speech genre is one of the existing practices of verbal communication, taking into account the situation and sphere of communication, style, intentional factor, form of speech, ways of beginning and ending speech, transfer of initiative in dialogue, and communicative strategies and tactics [Dementiev, p. 103].
Speech genres are relatively stable and normative forms of expression in which each utterance adheres to the laws of integral composition and types of connection between sentences-utterances [Formanova, p. 130].
⠀ Bakhtin M.M. (1986). Speech genres and other late essays. Austin: University of Texas Press.
⠀ Dementyev V.V. (2016). Speech Genres and Discourse: Genres Study in Discourse Analysis Paradigm. Russian Journal of Linguistics. Moscow: People's Friendship University of Russia.
⠀ Formanova S.V., Gusak L.V., Vorobiova T.A., Savchuk R.I., Dorofieieva O.M., Smalko L.Y. (2021). Status in Social Networks as a Speech Genre. Postmodern Openings. Iasi, Romania: LUMEN Publishing.