METHODS OF FORMING SEMANTIC COHESION IN THE GENRE OF RÉSUMÉ

• Main Author: O. V. Toykina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2014-02-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: résumé; thematic cohesion of the genre; official business discourse; nomination; thematic density; lexical morphemes; semantic link
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1360

The paper deals with the features of selection of lexical and semantic means of forming semantic cohesion of the genre of résumé in the German and Russian linguistic cultures. Officially, résumé as a genre of business discourse is characterized by a certain thematic field formed around a specific thematic dominant. Particular attention is paid to the definition of the dominant thematic nomination of résumé, as well as to the identification of lexical units that form the subject field of the genre. Detection of the major thematic nominations is made with the help of computer program for linguistic analysis and processing of texts. The paper also presents the analysis of thematic nominations based on their discursive, stylistic, morphological and semantic characteristics. The analysis indicates the existence of different ways of updating the semantic values that characterize the features of professional and labour activity and forming the overall thematic genre field of résumé in the German and Russian linguistic cultures.