GENRE CHARACTERISTICS OF RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the genre profile of religious discourse at the level of genre traits in terms of modern linguistic, communicative and cognitive- discursive conceptions. Genres of speech in religious discourse are considered as a fundamental factor that caused the development of (self-) composition structure: by means of genres, the model/System of “interlocutor – message Interlocutor”, speech strategies and pragmatic aims it is actualized within religious discourse. As part of the research, structural-semantic, grammatical, stylistic and cognitive criteria have been established for oral and written speech genres used for religious purposes; their functional peculiarities are also considered. The results confirm the requirement of studying religious discourse as a genre system, while exposing theoretical and practical significance of genre theory in Islamic studies and Uzbek linguistics.