The Attempt of Social Roles Typology of Speech Genres, Summary
The Attempt of Social Roles Typology of Speech Genres In the article " The Attempt of Social Roles Typology of Speech Genres " by Krysin N.P., the author suggests an attempt to link the theory of role structure of the human behaviour to different speech genres. First, the author gives the definition of social roles, defining them as "a set of role expectations". He then proceeds to give the definition of speech genre, stressing that they have many connection points with social roles. He elaborates that speech acts are defined, just as social roles, by the principle of recurrence. Furthermore, he states that the most typical way of communicating and exercising your social role is to create social roles pairs. The author then proposes a system of interrelation of social roles and speech genres, differentiating them into symmetrical and asymmetrical. Ultimately, what Krysin N.P. is trying to convey through his article is that social role structure may and shou...