Zanry Reci

About Zanry Reci

Speech Genres (Zhanry Rechi) — The Saratov Journal of Speech Genre Studies

The journal stored on this Journals World record as "Zanry Reci" is the Russian philological journal Жанры речи, transliterated Zhanry Rechi and published in English as Speech Genres. It is an international scientific journal devoted to the problems of speech and communication genres and to current approaches in studying them, founded and published by Saratov State University in Russia. It carries the print ISSN 2311-0740 and the online ISSN 2311-0759 — the pair stored on this record and printed, in that order, on the journal's own general information page. The stored title is a garbled transliteration of the Russian name, and readers should take the journal's identity from its ISSNs and its official site at zhanry-rechi.sgu.ru: this is the Saratov journal of genre studies in language and literature, a title with roots in a celebrated thematic collection of the same name and, behind that, in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, whose theory of speech genres gives the field — and the journal — its subject.

The journal explains its own genealogy carefully. It is based on the serial thematic collection "Speech Genres" (Saratov–Moscow, issues 1–8), which became widely known in Russia and abroad. The journal has been produced since 1997, and continuity with the collection is emphasised by keeping the numbering: the first issue of the journal is at the same time the ninth issue of the collection. Since 2018 it has appeared four times a year. It publishes in Russian and English, its electronic version is in open access, publication is free of charge for authors, and its content appears under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. OpenAlex, resolving the journal through its ISSNs, knows it under the name International Journal "Speech Genres" — a further reminder that this one journal circulates under several title forms, all tied to the same ISSN pair.

For linguists and literary scholars, this is the specialist home of genristics — the study of speech genres: the relatively stable types of utterance, from the everyday request, greeting or anecdote to the scientific article, the media interview and the internet meme, through which social interaction is organised. The Saratov school is one of the founding centres of that discipline in Russia, and the journal is its flagship periodical: indexed in Scopus, listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, and classed in the top category of Russia's official list of leading refereed journals. A profile of the journal is therefore also a small map of a whole research tradition.

Quick Facts

History and Development

The intellectual history begins with Bakhtin. Mikhail Bakhtin's essay on the problem of speech genres, written in the early 1950s and published posthumously, argued that language is used in concrete utterances that fall into relatively stable types — speech genres — shaped by the sphere of communication in which they occur. That idea became one of the most productive in twentieth-century language theory, feeding discourse analysis, pragmatics, rhetoric and media studies worldwide. In Saratov, scholars built a research school directly on it: the thematic collection "Speech Genres", issued from Saratov and Moscow through eight volumes, gathered the school's work and, in the journal's own words, became widely popular in Russia and abroad.

The journal proper has been produced since 1997, deliberately continuous with the collection — its first issue is simultaneously the collection's ninth — so that a reader following the numbering follows one unbroken scholarly conversation from the collection era into the journal era. The journal is registered as a mass medium in Russia (certificate ПИ № ФС 77-76706 of 2 September 2019, in its current registration), is included in the Russian list of leading refereed scientific journals and publications recommended for publishing the main results of doctoral research, and holds that list's category K1. Since 2018 it has appeared four times a year — a quarterly rhythm that marks its maturity from an occasional thematic volume tradition into a standard research periodical.

Two features of its development deserve note. First, the journal internationalised its presentation without abandoning its language base: it publishes in Russian and English, maintains a full English version of its website under the title Speech Genres, and entered Scopus and ERIH PLUS while keeping its Russian scholarly identity — its subject classifications are still given in the Russian scientific-speciality codes (Russian literature; theory of literature and textology; Russian language; theory of language, in their successive codifications). Second, it moved cleanly to open access: the electronic version is freely readable, content is licensed CC BY 4.0, authors may archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories immediately, and the archive is preserved through eLIBRARY.ru and CyberLeninka as well as on the journal's own server.

Scope and Subject Coverage

The journal is dedicated, in its own summary, to the problems of speech and communication genres and to current approaches to studying speech genres. Its standing section list is the best guide to what that means in practice, and this profile follows it closely.

General problems of the theory of speech genres. The theoretical core: what a genre is, how genres should be modelled and classified, how they change, and how genre theory connects to neighbouring frameworks in linguistics and literary studies. The journal's pages carry the Saratov school's own theoretical programme — including work on communicative genristics, which treats speech genres as a means of formalising social interaction — alongside contributions that test or revise the model.

Studies of individual genres. Close analyses of particular genres: their structure, their language, their history and their variations. Praise and condemnation in dialect discourse, the request in informal communication, the professional dialogue as a complex genre — the journal's archive shows the pattern, genre by genre, corpus by corpus.

Genres in art, in mass media, and on the internet. Three sections track genres where they are most visibly mutating: artistic literature; newspapers, broadcasting and other media; and the digital sphere, where the journal has published on internet genres and on the genre typology of social media — a natural frontier for a discipline whose founder-theorist insisted that genres live wherever communication happens.

Genres of new spheres of culture, and genres in phylo- and ontogenesis. The first of these follows genre formation in emerging communicative domains; the second takes the developmental view — how genres arise historically and how individuals acquire them — connecting genre theory to language acquisition and to the history of discourse.

Translations, criticism, bibliography, reviews and chronicle. The journal also serves its discipline as a record: translations that make key texts accessible, critical and bibliographic surveys, and reviews and chronicle of the field's events.

The journal's listed scientific specialities frame the same scope institutionally: Russian literature, theory of literature and textology, the Russian language, and the theory of language, updated across the Russian codifications of 2018 and 2022 to include the literatures of the peoples of Russia and theoretical, applied and contrastive linguistics. In short, Speech Genres is a philology journal with a single organising idea — genre — applied across language, literature, media and digital communication.

Editorial Model and Peer Review

The journal is edited at Saratov State University. Its editor-in-chief is Vadim V. Dementyev, professor and doctor of philology in the university's Department of Language Theory and History and Applied Linguistics, and himself a central figure of the Saratov genre school — author of a monograph on the theory of speech genres and of the communicative-genristics programme cited throughout the journal's literature. The deputy editor-in-chief is Lyubov V. Balashova, professor in the same department. Editorial leadership by the scholars who built the field is a pattern authors should note: submissions are judged by a board for whom genre theory is a life's work, and manuscripts that use the word "genre" loosely should not expect an easy passage.

The journal's stated process is conventional and explicit. Manuscripts received by the editorial office are checked for plagiarism in the Antiplagiat.VUZ text-matching system and are reviewed under the journal's published reviewing procedure, after which the editorial board decides on publication. The board does not consider articles that are only application-oriented, that have been previously published, or that have been accepted by other journals. Articles must comply with the format and style requirements published on the journal's site. Those rules — originality, no parallel submission, a genuine scholarly (not merely applied) contribution — are the standard gates of a serious refereed journal, stated here with unusual bluntness.

Open Access, Charges and Archiving

The economics of Speech Genres are simple and author-friendly: publications are free of charge, and the electronic version is in open access. There is no article processing charge — DOAJ's record for the journal (publisher Saratov State University, country Russia, languages English and Russian, licence CC BY, keywords including linguistics, speech genres and literature) confirms the absence of an APC. The content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. A print subscription exists through the Russian press catalogue system (subscription index 70771 in the United Catalogue "The Russian Press", with the price stated as not fixed), for institutions that still take the paper edition.

Digital preservation is handled in layers, as the journal's archiving policy describes: the journal content sits on its own server; copies are kept in the electronic library systems eLIBRARY.ru and CyberLeninka, where article-level search is possible; and authors may self-archive the final published version in personal or institutional repositories immediately after publication. For a journal in the humanities, that is a complete and modern preservation arrangement, and it means the archive does not depend on any single platform surviving.

Indexing and Metrics

The journal states its own indexing plainly: it is in Scopus, ERIH PLUS, the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) and DOAJ, and it is included in the Russian Science Citation Index database RINC on eLIBRARY.ru. Its place in Russia's official list of leading refereed journals, at category K1, is the credential that matters most for its core domestic authors, since publications in listed journals count toward Russian doctoral and academic requirements. Scopus membership gives the same work international discoverability, and ERIH PLUS listing certifies it within the European reference index for the humanities and social sciences.

OpenAlex, resolving the journal through its online ISSN to a single source under the name International Journal "Speech Genres", listed at checking time 559 works, 695 citations, an h-index of 9 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.85. Those are modest numbers by the standards of the experimental sciences and entirely normal for a specialised, partly Russian-language philology journal: its influence runs through a defined scholarly community — visible in the density of its internal citation tradition, where articles build on the collection-era and journal-era genre literature — rather than through mass citation. Readers evaluating the journal should weight its Scopus and VAK standing, its three-decade continuity and its role as its discipline's flagship above raw citation counts.

Reading the Journal: Names, Languages and Access Points

Because this journal circulates under several names, a short guide prevents confusion. In Russian it is Жанры речи. Transliterated strictly, that is Zhanry Rechi — the form the journal itself gives as its alternative title. In English it is Speech Genres, the title of its English website and the name under which it is known in ERIH PLUS and DOAJ-facing contexts. OpenAlex calls it International Journal "Speech Genres". The form stored on this Journals World record, "Zanry Reci", matches none of these: it drops letters from both words of the transliteration. All of these names attach to the same journal, identified unambiguously by ISSN 2311-0740 (print) and ISSN 2311-0759 (online), published from Saratov. Anyone citing the journal should use Speech Genres or Zhanry Rechi, with the ISSN, and anyone searching for it should try the Russian title and both transliterations, since databases index it inconsistently.

Language deserves a word too. The journal publishes in Russian and English, and much of its archive — including its theoretical core — is in Russian, with English abstracts and an English site interface making the content navigable for international readers. For scholars of genre theory, discourse and Russian linguistics, working through that archive, in translation where needed, is close to obligatory: the Saratov literature is one of the sources from which the international field grew.

Who Publishes in Speech Genres, and Who Reads It

The journal's natural authors are philologists and linguists working on genre in any of its forms: Russianists analysing the genres of Russian speech and literature; discourse analysts and pragmatists testing genre models against new data, from political speeches to messaging apps; literary scholars tracing how artistic genres form and decay; media scholars following genre change under digital conditions; and researchers of language development studying how genres are acquired. The journal's requirement that work be scholarly rather than only application-oriented, and its editorial leadership by genre theorists, set the bar: a submission should know the genre literature — Bakhtin, the Saratov collection and journal tradition, and the international discourse scholarship — and should add something to it, whether a new genre described, a model refined, or a corpus that changes what the field thought it knew.

Its readers are the same community at one remove, plus the neighbouring disciplines that borrow genre theory: communication studies, rhetoric, folklore, translation studies and digital humanities. For them the journal's value is cumulative. Because the collection and the journal share one numbering and one editorial tradition, the archive reads as a single long argument about how human communication organises itself into types — an argument that began in Saratov's seminars, ran through eight thematic volumes, and continues four times a year in a Scopus-indexed, open access journal that charges its authors nothing. Few specialist journals anywhere can offer their readers a thirty-year, freely readable record of one idea being worked out by the school that founded it.

Sources and Verification, Including a Corrections Note

This profile is built from sources fetched and read for this purpose: the journal's official general information page at zhanry-rechi.sgu.ru (English title Speech Genres, alternative title Zhanry Rechi, the collection genealogy and 1997 start, quarterly frequency since 2018, Scopus, ERIH PLUS, RSCI and DOAJ indexing, ISSN 2311-0740 print and 2311-0759 online, Saratov State University as founder and publisher, registration certificate, free publication, open access, CC BY 4.0, RINC and the K1 category, scientific specialities, section list, languages, plagiarism checking and review procedure, and the archiving policy); the journal's editorial board page (editor-in-chief Vadim V. Dementyev, deputy Lyubov V. Balashova); the DOAJ record for its online ISSN (no APC, CC BY, languages English and Russian); and the OpenAlex source record resolved through its ISSNs (559 works, 695 citations, h-index 9).

Corrections-pass note. The title stored on this Journals World record, "Zanry Reci", is a misspelled transliteration of Жанры речи. The journal's own forms are Zhanry Rechi (transliteration) and Speech Genres (English title). The stored ISSNs, by contrast, are correct and match the journal's official page exactly. This profile has been written under the stored title's record, as required, but the record's title field is a candidate for correction to "Speech Genres (Zhanry Rechi)" in a future corrections pass.