Discourse in literary communication

Abstract

The article makes a definition between two approaches to a discourse: viewing it as a matter of sociocultural studies and the linguistic communicative approach. The first one deals with fields and types of discourse practices, the second one – with a body of verbal statements related to the types of the discourse practices. Since the second approach demands that discourse should include texts on the basis of clear common linguistic communicative criteria, literary texts as such cannot be combined into a single discourse. Yet, they may create special groups of literary discourses (by genre, theme and style). They can intercourse and intersect with practical discourses (such as biographical, epistolary, popular scientific ones). From the sociocultural point of view, literary texts are a part of the aesthetic discourse, together with the other nonverbal groups.