Discourse interpretation: topic, format, mode
Discourse is presented in a three-dimensional model of its description including topic which deals with its contents, format which comprises the communicative situation, and mode which expresses its emotional and stylistic tone. The topic of a discourse is a starting point of its linguistic analysis and it deals with the text as a material object of communication, the format includes basic components of a communicative situation - its participants, objectives, values, time and space, strategies, genres and conversational formulas, and the mode is determined by culturally bound personal predispositions of communicative situation participants who take part in certain types of social actions via certain communicative channels.