Kot S. Discourse analysis of sermon as moral-ecclessiastical genre of speech (on the basis of Orthodox Christmas sermon)

The thesis is devoted to discourse analysis of orthodox Christmas sermon as a genre, its appearance, development and structural components. The sermon as a genre is analysed, the verbal peculiarities along with paralinguistic features of sermon as discourse are examined. The global text categories of sermon are characterized on the basis of its text analysis. Christmas sermon correlation with functional styles of the Russian language is indicated. The communicative situation of preaching is characterized by its dependence on sociocultural context. The communicative goal of sermon is multipurpose and soteriological. A distinctive feature of paralinguistic component of Christmas sermon is its rigidity and kinem usage restriction. Situational paralinguistic means have mainly a confirming function, while manual, mimic and pantomimic ones have an expressive and emotional function. Based on functional and style factors Christmas sermon is correlated with sociopolitical style of the Russian language: its usage, function and speech peculiarities of the verbal level.