“You can only teach yourself”. To the Prof. Tatiana V. Shmeleva’s anniversary
This article is devoted to the famous Russian linguist, Professor of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University Tatiana Shmeleva. The author talks about the scientific activity and linguistic ideas of Prof. Tatiana Shmeleva, as well as about her personality and pedagogical principles. The article discusses several scientific areas in which the ideas of Prof. Tatiana Shmeleva played the most prominent role. This is the semantic syntax, speech genres, the language of the city, Speech Studies (linguistics of speech). Modern linguistic research is not complete without references to the works of Prof. Tatiana Shmeleva in these scientific areas. The most cited is the description model proposed by Prof. Tatiana Shmeleva - the “speech genre questionnaire”. The author believes that the article by Prof. Tatiana Shmeleva “Key words of the current moment” is still underestimated, although it has a great research potential. The article notes the importance of the proposed by Prof. Tatiana Shmeleva concept of Speech Studies (rechevedenie), which allowed to systematize the already accumulated knowledge and create a logical conceptual apparatus for the study of speech. According to the researcher, speech includes five sections: role, texture, sphere, genre, rule.