Lytvynenko N. Modern Ukrainian medical discourse.

The thesis is the first work of Ukrainian language study researching modern Ukrainian discourse. The author has developed a special methodology of professional medical discourse, proposed classification of communication strategies and tactics to differentiate typical communication models in doctor-patient and doctor-doctor relations. The author has also implemented a new approach to select and qualify discourse institutional types which are discrete ones, used for communication between doctor and patient, and non-discrete ones, applied for professional communication between doctor and his colleagues. He described communicative and grammatical peculiarities of doctor's speaking in typical situations of professional communication. The author has differentiated syntactical constructions of interrogative and imperative mood depending on strategies and tactics of discrete and non-discrete medical discourse. Не has clarified use of specialized imperative means (imperative forms) and non-specialized ones (infinitive, future and present tenses) in directive strategy, has defined variant imperative monosyllabic and disyllabic sentences.