Speech acts and Russian text-generating discourse

The relevance of the study is determined by hidden turbulence such concepts often used in Russian studies as “speech activity”, acts” and “discourse”. aim work to determine genetic connections this trinity functional purpose each categories under consideration. main research means authors’ method discursive-modus analysis artistic speech. materials were dictionary definitions from explanatory dictionaries language, particular “Dictionary expressive stable phrases language” compiled V.Ju. Melikyan, well utterances extracted National Corpus. authors found that communicative-speech act a synergistic combination mental-psychic speech activity. Mental-psychic activity involves mental acts - thought processes communicant at moment his locative readiness make statement psychic searching for adequate ways reflect communicatively significant event discursive consciousness communicants. encodes decodes semantic content author's intentions with help language system. Speech produces units communication embodying purposeful action. In conclusion, categorical essence discourse are generalized. perspective development cognitive-pragmatic theory speech-thinking based on material language.