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Name: The types of discourse genres in the Altay proverbs and Sayings

Authors: Oynotkinova Nadezhda Romanovna

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of folklore

Abstract: Article is devoted speech genres in the Altay proverbs and the sayings representing standard statements. Their text modality is various, 4 inclinations are presented to them: Indicative, Imperative, Conditional, Imperative-Optative; and also the means expressing a Obligative modality. Modal forms of a predicate in proverbs and sayings creat different discourse genres, such as statement, dispraise, praise, prohibition, recommendation, desire, instruction, warning and obligation.

Keywords: proverbs, sayings, a speech genre, the standard statement, a text modality

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