The Parameters of Speech Genre Implementation in the Black Humour Discourse

Abstract

The systematic research of speech genres is a very recent development in applied linguistics that results in establishing a new philological direction in communicative and functional linguistics – genology. The article deals with the investigation of the speech genre implementation in the black humour discourse on the basis of the English-language fictional works by R. Dahl and R. Carver. The author represents the description of a speech genre notion in terms of communicative and functional linguistics. We consider a black humour discourse from the perspective of van Dijk’s discourse theory. The article also provides a detailed classification of the black humour speech genres on the material of belles-letters communication in the works of the aforementioned writers. The components of the speech genre model, suggested by T. Shmeljova, are pointed out. Taking into account a communicative purpose, the image of the author, an addressee concept, the factors, the type of the event content and the parameter of the genre language implementation, we make a thorough analysis of the black humour speech genres. Besides, the article dwells on the specifics of the black humour speech genres, which results in the non-cooperative communication, realized in a dialogic form.