THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC TYPE OF SPEECH DESCRIPTION AND TEXTUAL IMPLICATURE (STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM)
This article analyses the functional-semantic type of speech description and how it figures in reviews (as a genre) published in the U.S.-American journal «Новый журнал» (“The New Journal”). This analysis reveals textual implicatures that create a composite picture of meaning that is logically determined to be ambiguous. Behind this picture lies a typical real life situation in Russia that is embedded in an historical period.