The author introduces criteria for genre percipience, such as the communicative goal, the degree to which the utterance affects the addressee, and
sacredness. Inside the genre buildings, the author proposes to distinguish texts by thematic content, style and composition.

Noting the close connection between style and genre, the researcher suggests understanding the religious language "as a system of genres, many of which coincide with the secular language genres or are the progenitors of secular language genres."