Similarities and diffrerences between the speech genres “praise” and “compliment” in Russian linguaculture

The theory of speech genres, studying relatively stable thematic, compositional and stylistic types of utterances (texts) is rightly considered one of the most important areas in modern linguistics. Especially active the theory of speech genres is developing in Russia. This is reflected in the publication of numerous articles and monographs on the topic. The article makes a certain contribution to the theory of speech genres, as it analyzes speech genres “Praise” and “Compliment” which are very similar thematically, compositionally and stylistically in Russian linguaculture. The relevance of the article lies, first of all, in the choice of the theme, since so far there have been no studies comparing these speech genres on the material of the Russian language. The article touches upon the analysis of the communicative goals facing the addressees of the above mentioned speech genres. The communicative goal is known to be the main, typologically significant feature of anyspeech genre. Namelythe various communicative goals facing the addressees of the speech genres “Praise” and “Compliment” in Russian linguaculture make it possible to quite clearly distinguish these speech genres from each other, especially given the frequent similarity of the analyzed genres in terms of their vocabulary and syntactic tools. In addition, the relevance of the publication is confirmed by the fact that, if domestic and foreign linguists have studied in detail compliment both as an utterance and as a speech genre in Russian linguaculture and its analogues in other linguacultures, scientific works studying praise as an utterance and as a speech genre are not very numerous.