Methodology of Modern Rhetorical Education: Russian Scientific Schools

Abstract

The article is devoted to the description of the activities of Russian scientific schools in theoretical and pedagogical understanding of rhetoric as a science of the laws and rules of effective and appropriate speech. The process of restoration of rhetoric in Russia from the 70-80s of the last century is considered - a classical discipline dealing with the problems of speech and the culture of speech communication. It is shown that the result of this process was the creation in various universities of Russia of original scientific and pedagogical concepts, which today cover the whole range of general territorial rules for constructing prosaic speech and particular issues of professional communication in various fields of activity. It is noted that each described scientific school offers independent ways and methods of teaching good and correct, convincing and decorated, perfect speech. Rhetoric is defined as the central philological discipline that deals with the problems of public speech practice and dictates, with its recommendations, a certain style of thought and lifestyle. It is emphasized that this science is correlated with all “speech professions”, since each competent specialist expresses himself in a word and organizes his activity through communication and the creation of effective influencing texts.

Keywords

• rhetoric
• scientific school
• effective speech
• communication
• speech teaching
• communication culture
• professional rhetoric
• speech influencing