Addressing the issue of placing monologic public speaking in the system of functional styles: diachronic aspect
This article focuses on the diachronic development aspect of monologic public speaking in the system of functional styles and offers a new classification for this kind of texts, based on mythology and ritual phenomena. A dichotomy between myth and ritual as well as one between the information genre and social and ritual genre are of great practical value and can be used to do the initial pragmatic and stylistic analysis of the text.