Филологический класс (Mar 2015)

Pragmatics of Explanation (Expressive Means in Popular Science Texts)

Journal volume & issue
no. 2 (40)
pp. 15 – 19

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The paper identifies the communicative-pragmatic factors motivating the specificity of explanation as a kind of reasoning. Analyzed the expressive means used in the popular science texts (mass-media) to be understood by the reader. Expressive means used in the explanation to be understood (metaphor paraphrasing, the appeal to personal experience).

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