METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING THE SITUATIONAL CONTENT OF A GENRE SOURCE

Abstract

The article suggests a way to solve theoretical problems of speech genre studies through the development of the concept of genre source studies. Currently, the practice of analyzing statements in order to identify genre structures in them is carried out without theoretically justified work on the selection of research material and justification of its suitability for solving the tasks set. The paper discusses an original idea of developing a new methodology of speech genre studies, the concept of which is the principle of determining sources with reliable and sufficient linguistic content of the genre component. The developed concept of situational content, based on the identification of a set of data on communicative situations contained in the source that predetermine some content of the source, carries the potential to build a rational methodology for constructing a model of a speech product with the designation of situational, discursive, speech, communicative factors in it. External manifestations of a real communicative situation have the property of “reflectivity” on the content side of a typical speech work when structuring it, where some meanings make up the internal situational content of a genre source. The use of the principle of external and internal structuring of situational content is reflected in the genre source model.