Cоmmunicative Registers as Means of Expressing Author's Position in Monologue Speech

Abstract

During monologue speech one does not take into consideration author' position. In monologue utterance of learners as a rule author`s position absent. An academician Zolotova– pointed out five communicative registers of speech: reproductive, informative, generative, voluntive and reactive. They may be taken as means of teaching of expressing author`s position. In the work is described functioning of these communicative registers of speech in semantic types of a text, suggested by Passov. In the frame work of each type is shown functioning of the most frequently used registers, defining the role of a speaker toward to the information of a text: “the person who observes”, “the person who participates in social events”, “the person who gives information”, “the person who encourages”, “the person who reacts to some events” and “the person who generates information”. In the connection of functioning of registers of speech in the text the described examples of marked language means.

Keywords: communicative register; reproductive register; informative register; generative register; voluntive register; reactive register; author`s position; monologue speech; time schedule; modal-temporal plan of  text; deictic line of text.