About some lexical-semantic and structural-syntactic peculiarities of English scientific medical articles

Abstract

This work concerns the problem of English scientific medical articles which present a separate trend, known for its peculiar lexical cast and structural-syntactic, compositional features. The abundance of special terminological nominations, high preciseness, strict logical order, clarity of material exposition and data presenting, large use of different type discourse-text ‘transitions’ for structural-semantic and lexical-syntactic organizing are most significant features of special scientific texts. All this approves for medical scientific discourse specific character, claiming for a large variety of its concepts in American and European linguistics, which, in its turn, provokes problems in treating basic multi-level language units. Thus, one can state a high actuality of regarding poly-functional text-forming elements in a multi-aspect, complex way. Just for this reason scientific texts lexical-semantic-syntactic peculiarities studying has become the objective of our research. The results of complex structural-compositional, lexical-semantic, syntactic-stylistic analysis fulfilled in the frame of given work give full grounds to state a certain specificity of multi-level organizing, structuring, lexical-terminological filling of poly-thematic scientific medical articles taken from original English-language sources.

Keywords

• special field of knowledge
• style
• scientific medical article
• meta-language
• lexical unit
• stratification
• structural-compositional feature
• discourse-text ‘transition’, material analysis
• context