The speech genre of assumption in dialect communication

Modern linguists pay great attention to the study of interrelations of linguistic phenomena and the person. Currently the study of genres is one of the leading directions in the functional aspect of the language. There are many publications devoted to separate genres in Russian linguistics. This article proves the appropriateness of the separation of the speech genre of assumption in dialect communication, and provides its description according to the selected parameters. The study is carried out on the language material of the Russian Middle Ob region old timers' sub-dialects. The author analyses the main parameters of a speech genre: the communicative purpose, the image of the speaker, the image of the addressee, the dictum content and formal indicators. Examples of this speech genre are taken from dialect communication. Some semantic peculiarities of the assumption speech genre indicators have been noted. The semantic basis of separating the assumption speech genre can be defined as a guess, preliminary judgment about the object of speech, phenomenon, event, etc. The speech genre implies several different actions with the information: request or transfer, qualification of information according to the validity parameter. The speech genre of assumption is complex, informative and interlocutor-focused. It functions in oral speech, and can be spontaneous or provoked. The assumption is implemented in situations of natural everyday communication, its temporal correlation with events may be different. The assumption indicator is parenthetic and modal words and constructions in the structure of the utterance. The speaker's communicative goal of using the considered speech genre is to express a guess about the events of the present, past, to make a preliminary judgment on the subject of speech. In most cases the author and the addressee are equal participants of the communication from the point of their social status and age. The assumption can be characterized by the different time perspective of the event. It is due to the fact that in a language situation one can speak about future and past events. The following set of assumption genre-forming means can be suggested: parenthetic and modal words and structures with the semantics of assumption, past and future tense forms of the verb. Assumptions are implemented in the speech genre of assumption, which is complex, informative, and has its own formal indicators, structure and functions according to the laws of oral communication. The specificity of the genre indicators is the presence of parenthetic and modal words and constructions, which allows differentiating assumptions built on the speaker's sensual experience from those related to the thinking processes due to their semantics.

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