On the issue of contamination and consistent combination of ascertaining types of speech

The article is devoted to the typology of the question. Material for analysis were the works of Russian classical literature. The object of research is functional- semantic types of speech. Under the phenomenon of contamination we mean the combination of topics in one of the two or more types of speech. Under microtomy we understand the smallest part of an overall theme of the text. On the basis of one of microtomy in the text is a complex syntactic whole. Contaminated it occurs when combination description and reasoning, and narrative reasoning and narrative within a single complex syntactic whole. The subject of this research was descriptive-narrative-contaminated speech. Based on the analysis there are two way of ascertaining the contamination of the speech types. The issue of delineation of con- tamination and summative types of speech and their successive combinations in fiction.