FROM M. BAKHTINE TO J.-P. BRONCKART: STUDIES OF DISCOURSE TYPOLOGY

Abstract

Problems of discourse typology increasingly attract the attention of linguists of various directions. This phenomenon is connected with the fact of society's transition to the digital presentation of information, which requires the creation of criteria for the classification of texts stored in various databases, access to them and their processing. The proposed study is based on the theory of speech genres of M. Bakhtin, who was one of the first to pose the question of classification of different types of discourse, basing his theory on the idea of utterance as a unit of speech. In general, M. Bakhtin's idea of speech genres can be represented by the formula: typical statements in typical circumstances. The article analyzes theories that have similar approaches to the creation of criteria for the typology of discourse, consider discourse as an interactive process associated with various types of human activity, which has an interactive and social character. In particular, the theory of discursive formations of M. Foucault is presented, which is based on the idea of the existence of ritualized forms of discourse that function in certain circumstances. The typology of verbal interactions by C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni is also analyzed, which claims that the meaning of an utterance is a product of "collaboration", that it is constructed jointly by the various speakers present. At the same time, interaction can be defined as a place of collective activity for the generation of meaning and, thus, a special role belongs to the context of communication. The theory of J.-P. Bronckart is also presented, in which the researcher focuses on the typology of texts and the analysis of linguistic units characteristic of each type of text (pronouns, argumentative and temporal determinants) and studies the general mechanisms of the production of texts/discourses and their structural properties, as well as analyzes the regularities of internal functioning of these texts/discourses.