Abstract
<jats:p>The aim of this study is to identify typological patterns in the functioning of contemporary everyday speech in Russian and French linguistic cultures through a comparative-contrastive analysis of utterances and cognitive-communicative data on national worldviews. Achieving this goal allows us not only to identify recurring structures, habits, or patterns characterizing the functioning of each language for the purpose of their classification or comparison, but also to formulate basic concepts for modeling the ethnocultural phenomena of “Russianness” and “Frenchness” as objects of research in postcommunication and new comparative studies. The scientific novelty of this study is determined by the originality of the grammatical-mentalistic concept, based on the dialectic of translating linguistic features into the space of ethnocultural cognition and communication, as well as the creation of an updated model of linguo-semiological description of everyday narrative to clarify the conceptual apparatus and more clearly structure the terminology of conversational discourse, as well as the theory of language and communication theory. The colloquial, reduced speech type is interpreted as a labile and dynamic system of meaning generation, based on the ethnocentric semiotics of a unique emotional-expressive code. Mastery of this code allows members of a single linguistic-cultural community to better understand each other and strengthen their identity, which is one of the key research principles. The data obtained in this study opens avenues for identifying additional psycholinguistic and cognitive-communicative mechanisms underlying the functioning of the reduced speech register and, based on these, for developing an interdisciplinary toolkit for expanding the epistemological field of developmental vectors for contrastive-proactive linguapragmatics of speech acts.</jats:p>