Genres of official Military Speech in Military Institutional Discourse: Status and Characteristics

The purpose of the study is to determine the place of genres of official military communication in the educational and professional sphere within the framework of military discourse in order to further substantiate the relevance of the genre approach in teaching Russian as a foreign language to foreign cadets in compliance with the principle of professionally oriented teaching. The article examines the characteristics of military discourse reflected in terms of genre diversity, pragmatic features and attitudes towards functional-semantic styles. The scientific novelty consists in clarifying the status of military business speech in the educational and professional environment of military higher educational institutions of a command profile, as well as in their characterization from the point of view of genre, stylistic and language features. As a result, it was revealed that the system of genres of official military speech, which is relevant for the educational process of a military university of a command profile, belongs to the institutional type of discourse, is characterized by the interpenetration of scientific and official-business styles with the official dominant, includes directives ("Tactical task", "Combat order") and informative types of genres ("Decision", "Report").