The interaction of verbal and non-verbal components in English methodical discourse

Abstract

The article presents and analyzes the examples of creolized texts of the English-language methodological discourse in order to identify and describe the relationship between verbal and non-verbal components. The importance of referring to such a semiotically complicated type of texts in modern linguistics is discussed. The author supports the idea that the methodical discourse, which is part of the institutional one, is dialogic in nature, where the communication of the participants is a crucial thing. The success of communication is ensured by the syncretic relationship of the verbal and non-verbal components of the discourse, which helps the recipient to perceive the text more fully, to decode the meanings implemented by the author. The organization of the English-language methodological discourse is analyzed in terms of the saturation of texts with verbal and non-verbal components of information transfer and their quantitative correlation. Examples from the texts of English-language books on the methodology of teaching English are considered in detail. The purpose of this study was to consider the typology of non-verbal elements in methodological texts and to determine their relationship with the verbal part (the test itself).