Speech genre of autobiography as a discourse practice (based on the text by V. Ya. Bulokhov)

The concept of discursive practice as a method of socially oriented speech activity is effective for describing the processes of creation and results (speech works, texts) of an individual linguistic personality who carries out his professional activities in communications of various types, genres, targeted orientation, etc. Certain texts of such a personality can be considered a kind of discursive practice (on the basis of social orientation, implementation of a set of speech genres, manifestations of the subjective principle, expressiveness/non-expression of address focus, thematic and semantic organization, cognitive dominant, etc.). The purpose of the article is to identify discursive parameters related to the thematic, cognitive, communicative embodiment of the linguistic personality of the author (philologist), methods of transmitting information, organizing communication with the addressee in artistic and journalistic speech activity of an autobiographical orientation. Analysis of the text of the memoir type “Autobiography” (written by Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Krasnoyarsk philologist V. Ya. Bulokhov) revealed ways of realizing the author’s linguistic personality at the structural, thematic, communicative cognitive levels of the organization of artistic and journalistic discourse, as well as features of discursive practice through the use of social regulations and personal type. Regulators draw the addressee’s attention to the connection of the reported information with the social context of a “broad” or “narrow” type, the interaction of chronotopes “there and then”, “here and now”, “while the prognostic now”. The use of analysis of the thematic and structural organization of the text, identification of modes of communication, their alternation, features of updating the cognitive composition using means of transmitting information at the semantic, pragmatic levels made it possible to establish leading speech strategies that mark the autobiographical discursive practice of a linguistic personality, whose speech activity is characterized by lexical, syntactic, communicative, pragma-style variability, diversity of spatio-temporal and egocentric deictic components of discursive practices of text-forming means.

discourse, text, discursive practice, communicative, structural, semantic, cognitive organization of the text, regulative, artistic and journalistic discourse