MISSING MANUAL AS VARIETY OF OPERATING INSTRUCTION: TO NOTION DEFINITION
Ul'yanova Ul'yana Aleksandrovna
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
Abstract. The author considers the essence of genre variety of operating instruction Missing Manual from the perspective of pragmatic approach, determines the core of operating instruction genre and its periphery, traces the formation of this genre variety, analyzes compositional and language figuration of Missing Manual, and presents the classification of Missing Manual depending on the sphere of device (gadget) or software functioning.
Key words and phrases: инструкция по эксплуатации, адресат инструкции, жанровая разновидность, ядро жанра, периферия, композиция, operating instruction, recipient of instruction, genre variety, core of genre, periphery, composition
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