THE INSTITUTIONAL FEATURES IN LECTURE AND SERMON DISCOURSES

Abstract

The article outlines the main system formative criteria indicative of lecture and sermon discourses belonging to an institutional discourse. In accordance with the universal model of the institutional discourse description lecture and sermon discourses have been viewed in the article. The following components of lecture and sermon discourses such as communicants, local and temporal characteristics, aims, values, strategies, subjects, varieties and genres, precedential texts, discursive formulae have been described and analyzed. Distinctive and integral properties of the given discourses have been ascertained. Among mutual criteria of the discourses under study the wide usage of precedential texts in both lecture and sermon discourses should be mentioned. Realized in the form of citation these texts can function either as a starting point for the further argumentation or as an argument itself. The research allowed to prove the belonging of the investigated discourses to an institutional discourse in spite of the occurrence of the elements of personal and existential discourses within these institutional formations.

Authors and Affiliations

K. A. Bondarenko

Keywords

Related Articles

ENGLISH AS А LINGUA FRANCA IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION

The article investigates the English language, functioning as a lingua franca, in a modern multicultural and polyethnic universe in cross-cultural communication across the extrapolation of the secondary varieties of the...

NONVERBAL MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARIES

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of nonverbal means of communication in the dictionaries of the English language. The research has been done on the material of Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Diction...

DYNAMIC COMPONENT OF INTONATION PARTICIPATION IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ORAL PRAYER TEXT IN ENGLISH FILM DISCOURSE

The article deals with the investigation of dynamic peculiarities of oral prayer texts used in modern English film discourse. Prayer personages’ appeal to God manifests intertextuality of the film discourse, that is the...

LEXICAL SEMANTIC FIELD “WATER TRANSPORT VESSEL” IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: MORPHOLOGICAL ASPECT

The given article deals with the investigation of the morphological peculiarities of the elements of the lexical semantic field “water transport vessel” in the English language. Word formation processes in the English la...

THE ROLE OF PERSONAL NAMES IN CREATING STEREOTYPICAL ELECTRONIC GAME CHARACTERS

Over the recent years, electronic games gradually gained strong influence on the psychological development of people, especially the younger generation, and the trend is currently gaining further momentum. They have been...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP388876
  • DOI -
  • Views 63
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

K. A. Bondarenko (2016). THE INSTITUTIONAL FEATURES IN LECTURE AND SERMON DISCOURSES. Записки з романо-германської філології, 2(), 20-26. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-388876