Keyword: «discourse»

The article deals with «word of the year»'s functioning as a lingua-cultural concept in the aspect of the factors of emerging of certain concept nominations in different cultures, the functioning dynamics and the degree of correlation in the concept choice are analyzed. The results of the analysis can illustrate the linc between social cultural values typical of a given time period and verbal representation of the concept, reflecting this epistemic meaning.

The article discusses the concept of medical discourse as well as the sphere of its application. The phenomenon of interdiscursivity within medical discourse is described. Genre features of scientific and academic discourse are described according to the proposed communicative and semantic model of genre analysis.

The article is devoted to the study of the main speech strategies and tactics in circus discourse on the example of communication between members of the circus collective. The article discusses the basic concepts for research – speech strategy, speech tactics, discourse. Moreover, there is a problem to describe generally accepted classification of speech strategies and tactics. Based on the classification of informative and phatic types of speech behavior the article identifies two main speech strategies and corresponding speech tactics.

This article discusses the features of the implementation of the addressee's communication strategies through the prism of the title of the railway text. There is an increased interest of researchers in the issue of communicative strategy and tactics as a linguistic phenomenon. Attention is focused on the important role of certain linguistic means as linguistic techniques in the implementation of the author's intention and the addressee's communicative strategy. The most effective language means used in the framework of the railway discourse are identified.

The article describes the patterns of construction of the legal text. The concept of «legal text» is defined by the author as part of the legal discourse, which has specific features. Arguments are given to determine the difference between a legal text conditioned by legal discourse and another text. An analysis of the practical material demonstrates the regularity of the put forward provisions.