Category Features of Toast as Small Speech Genre

Abstract

Toasts logically fit into modern cultural space, including folklore. Folklore as a field of artistic creativity is widely spread in a variety of forms and types in modern reality. This phenomenon is dynamic, evolving, and quickly transformable; within humanitarian knowledge it interacts with such concise concepts as post-folklore, subculture; it reflects quality changes of public and everyday life of our era. Conceptually, the subject field of urban folklore is fairly well understood and even developed despite its specifics and complexity.