профессиональная коммуникация

Two textbooks on speech culture for the law students are reviewed. Special emphasis is placed on the speech culture aspects of professional communication. The structure of the textbooks is analyzed, as well as the system of tasks and the reference material.

The article aims to consider medical and pedagogical discourse as a special type of institutional discourse realized at higher medical educational establishments. The basic characteristics of medical and pedagogical discourse and the forms of its participants’ interactions are analyzed.

The article explores the emotional and evaluative function of metaphor actualizing the military realia in the speech practices of French soldiers in the early twentieth century. The author shows that the use of metaphors in professional communication is largely conditioned by the current psychological and extra-linguistic context and by the connotative meaning of the linguistic sign as well.