Official-business discourse as prototext environment of everyday dialect text

In the article the specifics ofdiscourse space of everyday life is considered. The analysis is made on the basis of the followingdiscourse-forming categories: type of communion of discourse participants; aim of discourse; values ofdiscourse; thematic structure of discourse; circumstances of communication; role structure ofdiscourse; discursive strategies; genre structure; stylistic form; intertextual contact.During the analysis it was taken into account that the discourse space of every-day life, on the onehand, shows a unity in its contrast to institutional spheres of communication, on the other hand,represents a non-homogeneous set of specific everyday discourses.The following features of the discourse under study are revealed:1. Every-day discourse as a peculiar type of activity is, first of all, contrasted to institutionaldiscourses. Within the mentioned discourse-forming categories it is characterized by non-institutionalparticipants' communion principles with various degrees of stability.2. Every-day discourse aims are local, which is its distinctive feature defining their diversity inthe social space of every-day life.3. Values of out-of-institution unity and awareness of one's personal position in a mini-group aretopical for every-day discourse. Its potential values are those formed in a cultural community theparticipants of communication belong to, as well as individual, private values.4. Discourses under research are characterized by an open thematic structure.5. Every-day discourses possess a universal chronotope. The psychological attitudes of theirparticipants are independent from institutional communication frames.6. Unrestricted change of communicative roles, their orientation to the pragmatics ofcommunication, to the personal features of communicants is regular for every-day discourse.7. The communicative strategies of the discourse are prior to the corresponding institutionally setones, but they are transformed under the influence of the institutional types of activity.8. The functional-stylistic expression of the speech component of every-day life is made in theform of every-day communication (colloquial) style.9. Every-day discourses possess a high level of intertextual activity. It is primarily explained bytheir independence from institutional frames, which provides open limits for other-text and otherdiscourseelements penetration.

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