Institutional speech patterns in person-oriented discourses

In this study, person-oriented human activity is considered from the point of view of the theory of discourse, where discourse is understood as a "communicative event" (T. Van Dijk). Individually-personal communication is characterized by principally open borders. Within it, there are stereotypical discursive rules basing on the practical experience of communicators and determining the specificity of speech form organization. The practical experience of discourse subjects is a polydiscur-sive experience that comprises practices of not only everyday discourse, but also the institutional one with the communicator being a client of the discourse. As a result, texts of person-oriented discourse have speech patterns produced by institutional discourses (institutional speech patterns). The purpose of this article is to present the peculiarities of speech patterns developed in institutional discourses in texts of person-oriented discourses of various types. The study of institutional speech patterns in person-oriented discourses is regulated by the following factors. 1. The specific discursive intention that differentiates practical and interpretive discourses. 2. The role of the ordinary person in the discourse as its member. For the person participating in the discourse can be either routine, habitual or unusual, exceptional speech activity. This factor helps to distinguish between everyday and non-everyday discourses. The ordinary person's choice of speech patterns of institutional or person-oriented discourses is determined by the interpretive features of discursive intentions. The use of these models realizes the speaker's need in translation (A) of the dictum content generated in the source discourse and (b) modus meanings formed on the basis of the transformation of the meanings of the source discourse in inter-discourse interaction. Explication of the dictum content of the source discourse is associated with the use of institutional speech patterns in the informative function proper. The explication of modus meanings is based on the perception of institutional discourses as socially authoritative. Practical person-oriented discourses do not create conditions for the use of institutional speech patterns. Institutional speech models are implemented in a specific way both in everyday and non-everyday interpretive discourses. They often perform the informative function proper when translating the dictum content in everyday discourses, in non-everyday discourses they express the dictum content with the help of additional moduses in most cases.

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