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Postcrossing Project: Postcards As A New Form Of Speech Communication

2020; Linguagem: Inglês

10.15405/epsbs.2020.04.02.31

2357-1330

Ulyana S. Baimuratova, Anna V. Lyulina,

Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies

Nowadays much attention in linguistics is paid to the study of construction types of non-literary texts. The article deals with the texts of Postcrossing project postcards as a full-featured and specific linguistic object, which is a new form of speech communication throughout the world. On the basis of the theory of speech genres the corpus of postcrossing postcards texts is subjected to the analysis on three basic principles of a genre, which are thematic, stylistic and compositional. Holding linguopragmatic analysis allowed us to determine the structural variability of the genre of the postcrossing postcard. The regularities of the functioning of illocutionary speech acts were determined in a small volume of messages of the studied genre of the texts. The content that the means of speech etiquette carry while salutation is an expression of the intentions of greeting on the addresser’s part towards the addressee in the course of the etiquette situation, and while wish – it is farewell. The set of etiquette formulae is characterized by uniformity of grammatical constructions, static content of vocabulary and neutrality of its connotative meaning. The natural character of the postcards creating is proved by the thematic filling of the meaningful part of the compositional structure. It is characterized by four generalized directions: personal information, place, postcard, weather, which are present in the postcard text in different proportions and in different order. The conditions of the communicative situation determined the use of informative and emotive functions, which prevail in the meaningful part.