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The article is dedicated to the problem of structuring professional discourse by which the authors understand some discursive unit or fragment which is not purely institutional but mixes with some other types of discourse, the private discourse being the dominating one in this row. The conception of a professional discourse situation is put forward. The professional discourse situation is some compositionally united fragment of a certain discourse in which production, business, governmental, health protection, defence and other problems constitute the main discourse line. The situations are formed as a result of different factors of both objective and subjective nature. The language material for the research work was taken from novels by Arthur Hailey, a well-known American author writing on professional subjects intertwined with human relations—the combination forming the so-called “improvised” or “quasi-professional” discourse that reflects live communication in professional contexts. The situations in question may be differentiated by intercrossing of different factors and according to their main content. The main factors being Routine, Urgency and Participants, it is possible to define different structural types of professional communicative situations. From the point of their main content the situations may be those of Conflict, Deal and Crisis. The investigation is at the starting point and is planned to be developed further.
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Chekulai, I.V., Prokhorova, O.N., Kiseleva, A.V. (2020). Professional Discourse Situations as Quanta of Professional Communication. In: Malyuga, E. (eds) Functional Approach to Professional Discourse Exploration in Linguistics . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9103-4_9
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