Conceptual Approaches to Scientific Discourse and its Functions

All communicative situations of using language for scientific purposes form a scientific discourse. The scientific discourse genre is built on the basis of the oral or written text form: scientific written texts form the corpus of scientific written discourse, while audiovisual texts form the corpus...

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Main Authors: O. G. Orlova, V. L. Karakchieva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kemerovo State University 2021-07-01
Series:Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
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Online Access:https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/5010
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description All communicative situations of using language for scientific purposes form a scientific discourse. The scientific discourse genre is built on the basis of the oral or written text form: scientific written texts form the corpus of scientific written discourse, while audiovisual texts form the corpus of audiovisual scientific discourse. Smaller forms can be part of a larger text, or mega-genre. Oral mega-genres are: conference, forum, and congress, which can be subdivided into various smaller forms. The written scientific discourse has a distributed chronotope, whereas the oral one is tied to a specific time and place. Online forms are characterized by a distributed topos and a specific time. Communicators perform certain discursive roles: undergraduate – consultant; graduate student – reviewer; the author of the article – editorial board, readers. A scientist is a nuclear participant of scientific discourse. The key discourse-forming features of scientific discourse are: regulation, consistency, and structuredness; objectivity, accuracy, and abstractness; polemic; theatricality; intertextuality. The language of scientific discourse is impersonal, with multiple passive constructions. The functioning of scientific discourse is determinedby external social factors, general patterns of communication, internal trends, and developmental contradictions. Each text is polyphonic because it is the result of the interaction of many discursive paradigms that can be systematized in two directions: "vertical" and "horizontal" (from core to the periphery). Three tendencies dominate in the development of scientific discourse: the growth of phatic; displacement of communication activity to the periphery; authorization  of scientific discourse.
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spelling doaj.art-0ea89ad6acda4f4daccd81707797b21d2023-07-13T12:08:43ZengKemerovo State UniversityВестник Кемеровского государственного университета2078-89752078-89832021-07-0123252153110.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-2-521-5314369Conceptual Approaches to Scientific Discourse and its FunctionsO. G. Orlova0V. L. Karakchieva1Novosibirsk Technical State UniversityNovosibirsk Technical State UniversityAll communicative situations of using language for scientific purposes form a scientific discourse. The scientific discourse genre is built on the basis of the oral or written text form: scientific written texts form the corpus of scientific written discourse, while audiovisual texts form the corpus of audiovisual scientific discourse. Smaller forms can be part of a larger text, or mega-genre. Oral mega-genres are: conference, forum, and congress, which can be subdivided into various smaller forms. The written scientific discourse has a distributed chronotope, whereas the oral one is tied to a specific time and place. Online forms are characterized by a distributed topos and a specific time. Communicators perform certain discursive roles: undergraduate – consultant; graduate student – reviewer; the author of the article – editorial board, readers. A scientist is a nuclear participant of scientific discourse. The key discourse-forming features of scientific discourse are: regulation, consistency, and structuredness; objectivity, accuracy, and abstractness; polemic; theatricality; intertextuality. The language of scientific discourse is impersonal, with multiple passive constructions. The functioning of scientific discourse is determinedby external social factors, general patterns of communication, internal trends, and developmental contradictions. Each text is polyphonic because it is the result of the interaction of many discursive paradigms that can be systematized in two directions: "vertical" and "horizontal" (from core to the periphery). Three tendencies dominate in the development of scientific discourse: the growth of phatic; displacement of communication activity to the periphery; authorization  of scientific discourse.https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/5010discourse-forming signgenrespeech strategyauthorauthor's positionfield structurephatic communication
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Conceptual Approaches to Scientific Discourse and its Functions
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speech strategy
author
author's position
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title Conceptual Approaches to Scientific Discourse and its Functions
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title_full_unstemmed Conceptual Approaches to Scientific Discourse and its Functions
title_short Conceptual Approaches to Scientific Discourse and its Functions
title_sort conceptual approaches to scientific discourse and its functions
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speech strategy
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author's position
field structure
phatic communication
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