The aim of the article is an attempt to contrast questions, observations and postulates that are connected with the characteristic of advice and counselling
– two similar speech genres. The author concentrates on, among others, the following issues:
– academic perspectives of giving advice/counseling researched so far;
– a linguistic (semantic and/or genological ) definition of advice/counseling;
– similarities and differences between advice and counseling from a model point of view;
– linguistic manifestations of giving advice and counseling;
– ad vice and counseling in communicative practice (everyday communication, book, press, radio and television, Internet)
