Open AccessFUNCTIONAL-LINGUISTIC PARAMETERS OF ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE
Author(s) -
Dmitry Khramchenko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
diskurs professionalʹnoj kommunikacii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2687-0126
DOI - 10.24833/2687-0126-2019-1-1-9-20
Subject(s) - rhetorical question , linguistics , etiquette , rhetoric , professional communication , systemic functional linguistics , sociology , perspective (graphical) , standardization , discourse analysis , psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , world wide web , operating system
This paper is devoted to basic functional-linguistic analysis of modern English professional and business discourse. The aim of this paper is to look at the phenomenon of modern English professional discourse from a functional-linguistic perspective to discuss key elements of verbal interaction that define rhetorical uniqueness of this type of communication and combine traditions, standards and conventional nature with enough freedom for speakers to express themselves and be creative in composing texts of their own. The author sums up different approaches to the definition of professional communication, singles out and describes major functional features of this type of verbal interaction: goal-setting, functional loading of professional communication, typical participants, chronotopos, forms of verbal behaviour, role and status relations, pragmatic conventions and standardization, etiquette, functional differences between official and semi-official professional discourse, peculiarities of written communication. All the above mentioned functional features of modern English professional discourse impose severe limitations on the speech arsenal available to people. Basic functionallinguistic analysis of discursive fragments reveals what aspects should be further elaborated on in terms of improving the process of strategic planning of speech, selecting proper linguistic means to cause appropriate pragmatic impact on listeners/ readers, work out ways to increase efficiency of rhetoric.