THE QUESTION OF INTERACTION BETWEEN DISCOURSE AND GENRE (ON THE BASIS OF THE FOLK TALE DISCOURSE)


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In the framework of this paper the nature of the interaction between discourse and genre is explored, similar trends in the development of discourse and genre are identified, and genre as a significant attribute of discourse is characterized.

Modern approaches to the study of discourse are actively used by the Russian linguists to define the boundaries of the folk tale discourse and reveal its constitutive characteristics. Belonging to the sphere of the fictional discourse, the folk tale discourse cannot be fully identified with the fantastic discourse.

The comparative analysis of the concept of genre in the discursive and folklore research reveals a strong correlation between text genre characteristics and genre characteristics of discourse. It also removes the artificial opposition between discourse and folk genres on the basis of dynamics – statics. Regarding the English folk tale discourse, the most significant genre-distinctive parameter and constituent of fabulousness becomes the miracle/miraculous.

The English folk tale discourse has a field structure. Its core is formed by fairy, nursery, animal and other tales, the periphery is constituted by true stories, legends and traditions. The analysis of the genre, stylistic, semantic and structural features of the folk tale discourse allows formulating the definition of discourse. It is understood as a phenomenon of a higher order containing different genres of text works whose general characteristics are formed by the parameters of the genre-forming category of the discourse uniting them.

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Olga Alexandrovna Plakhova

Togliatti State University, Togliatti

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Email: plahova_oa@mail.ru

Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor, Professor of Chair “Theory and methods of teaching of foreign languages and cultures”

Russian Federation

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