Genres of medical discourse in the literary texts of contemporary medical writers

INTRODUCTION. The analysis of the specific features of the genres of medical discourse reflected in the literary texts of the 21st-century authors is currently insufficiently understudied, which is why this problem has become the focus of our scientific research, which focuses on the specifics of selecting linguistic means that contribute to the realization of the addressee‟s intention, as well as determining the frequency of certain speech genres.
MATERIALS AND METHODS. The empirical basis for the study was the works of contemporary medical writers T.Y. Solomatina “Obstetrician- HA!” and A.A. Lomachinsky “Stories of a forensic expert”. The primary research methods used are the method of contextual analysis, comparative analysis and discursive analysis.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The primary speech genres of medical discourse are predominant: persuasion, the genre of invective, supplication, and request. In second place in terms of frequency is diagnosis and clarification. The most frequent genres reflected in the texts of T.Y. Solomotina and A.A. Lomachinsky were request and persuasion, which is related to the specifics of the doctor‟ s work, as well as the subjects of communication. It should be noted that a typical set of linguistic means inherent in a particular genre, or attachment to the corresponding communicator (doctor) is not always present in the text. Thus, in the genre of explanation, familiar phrases could be used in a humorous way. The genre of diagnosis is fixed in the patient‟s speech. The request is conveyed in an exaggerated form using animalistic lexemes and manipulative techniques (flattery). This speech genre is also implemented as a warning.
CONCLUSION. Thus, in order to determine the uniqueness of the genres of medical discourse reflected in literary texts, it is important to take into account such parameters of the communicative situation as the addressee‟s factor and the addressee‟ s intention, the non-triviality of the situations depicted. All this contributes to the choice of linguistic means, not only regulated by the rules of institutional discourse, but also conditioned by the pragmatics of communication. The perspective of the research will be a comparative analysis of the genre of literary texts on medical subjects by authors of the 20th and 21th centuries in order to identify the changes that are present in the corpus.