LEXICAL-SEMANTIC SPACE OF THE MODERN GERMAN FAMILY DISCOURSE

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Family communication had been outside the scope of linguistic investigations for a long period of time. In the second half of the ХХth century it became more popular, starting from the linguocultural items in the Russian language materials. Some aspects of the family discourse were included in the investigation of the structure and pragmatics of conversational everyday communication, age and gender differentiation of the tactics and strategy configuration. The cognitive-discursive paradigm gives the basis for the definition of family communication as one of the discourse types and the research of its communicative-pragmatic peculiarities in the English speaking society. The aim of the German family discourse study is the determination of the functional-stylistic peculiarities of the family communication, linguopragmatic aspects of everyday communication, linguocultural specificity of the ethical behaviour. At the end of the 20 and the beginning of the 21 century