Proffesor Stanislav Gajda i žanry reči

The article discusses the relevance of the ideas of Professor Stanis³aw Gajda for the modern theory of speech genres. The speech genre classifications by Gajda have been analyzed, as well as the evolution of his concepts and views, such as the concept of “humanistic style” and national-historical dimension of style and genre. The relevance of the ideas by Gajda for the modern study on secondary speech genres is due to signi ficant changes in communicative speech space of Eastern Europe, the emergence of a number of new areas of “technologically mediated” communication, IT-technologies.