O gatunkowości listu w dyskursie konfliktu
The letter genre in conflict discourse

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to juxtapose the characteristics of the letter as a genre and theirembodiment in neighbours’ correspondence. The purpose of the study is to determine dis-course determinants of letters in a situation of (potential) conflict and the way they work.The research material consists of neighbours’ letters in Polish and Russian. The studyconcerns texts’ circulation and form, the sender and receiver of the correspondence,letters’ composition and convention, stylistic devices used, texts’ functions, and speechacts, as well as themes, and the axiology of letters. The following conclusions on discoursedeterminants of neighbours’ correspondence were formulated: discussion of the problemin public, lack of interest in the continuation of the dialogue by correspondence, the usageof non-neutral stylistic devices and an unconventional composition of letters, an impera-tive and expressive character of texts, an obligatory indication of anti-values in the text.

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