THE PLACE OF THE RHETORICAL COMPONENT IN THE STRUCTURE OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Abstract

The article raises a question of the need for a more specific and accurate description of the content of communicative competence, which is especially important due to the ambiguity of understanding this term at the present time. It is noted that rhetorical competence is the last stage of the formation of communicative competence, responsible for the development of professionally significant skills and abilities necessary for the work of the relevant specialist. In this regard, the combination of the subjects “Rhetoric” and “Russian language” is characterized as unacceptable, significantly complicating the formation of students’ communicative competence. The article describes in detail the content of rhetorical competence according to the model proposed by I.S. Sergeev, which can later be used to analyze work programs on “Rhetoric” for compliance of the proposed material with the purpose of the subject itself. The main content of rhetorical competence is the development of methods of speech influence on another person (addressee): the search for ways of interaction and non-conflict communication, the construction of an argumentation strategy and the search for appropriate arguments, the assimilation of the rules for creating speech in given genres.