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 observesâ€, “the person who participates in social eventsâ€, “the person who gives informationâ€, “the person who encouragesâ€, “the person who reacts to some events†and “the person who generates informationâ€. 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.