MAIN CATEGORIES OF LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION

Abstract

The article describes the main categories of linguistic communication (discourse, speech act, speech genre), their features and characteristics are explained. Different interpretations of the understanding of the specified categories are considered. Discourse as a complex communicative phenomenon, which includes linguistic, speech, socio-cultural, pragmatic and active awareness and skill of the speaker. Discourse is a complex communicative phenomenon that deals with communication as a speech process; a certain statement, which involves the speaker and the listener, and the intention to influence the second in a certain way. The linguistic act is a deliberate speech action, carried out in accordance with the norms of the literary language, the purpose and intentions of communication, the conditions and circumstances of the speech situation, the principles and rules of speech behavior adopted in society. Linguistic (communicative) act as a minimal unit of communication, purposeful speech action characterized by intentionality, purposefulness, conventionality. The linguistic genre is a thematic, compositional, and stylistically established types of messages – carriers of speech acts, united purpose of communication, the speaker’s idea, taking into account the identity of the addressee, the context and the situation of communication. The linguistic genre is a stylistic phenomenon, a type of statement, a communicative phenomenon consisting of a certain number of speech acts of communication participants. The positions of the relation between the main categories of linguistic communication are determined. It is proved that understanding of their essence and nature depends on the definition of approaches, principles, forms and methods of organization of educational activities. The role of the indicated units in successful communication is revealed; the possibility of their studying in the course of the Ukrainian language is substantiated.

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Lidiia Mamchur

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  • EP ID EP409044
  • DOI 10.25264/2519-2558-2017-68-115-119
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Lidiia Mamchur (2017). MAIN CATEGORIES OF LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION. Наукові записки Національного університету "Острозька академія" Серія "Філологія", 68(68), 115-119. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-409044