Specialist’s communicative competence: genre aspect

INTRODUCTION. For the needs of higher education, it is necessary to have a description of all the rhetorical genres in demand in the relevant professional communication, as a specialist's communicative competence directly depends on their ability to use stereotypes of institutional communication in their speech. Therefore, the aim of the study is to develop principles for selecting genre forms to create particular rhetoric necessary for forming the communicative competence of relevant specialists.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The study used diagnostic and causal analyses, which were accompanied by the use of abstraction and modeling methods. The material for analysis consisted, on the one hand, of modern scientific research in the field of linguistic genre theory, and on the other hand, of extensive empirical material collected by the author in the process of writing textbooks on rhetoric.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The research resulted in the formulation of a rhetorical approach to the construction of a genre system of particular rhetoric, which requires that first, the speech events characteristic of the work of the corresponding specialist be selected; then the obligatory (mandatory for this particular rhetoric) genres are identified. Next, poly-discursive genres (characteristic of several particular rhetorics, but having significant specific features in each rhetoric) and free genres (not tied to a particular discourse) are distinguished. Finally, peripheral genres (not mandatory for use, not tied to certain professionally significant situations) are considered last.CONCLUSION. The author concludes that in order to create genre classifications, it is necessary to use rhetorical criteria for their selection, reflecting the purpose of this discipline.