PECULIARITIES OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article highlights a special product of thought activity, scientific discourse. The authors identify the following distinctive features: the informational value, consistency, accuracy, the use of terminology. It is noted that the choice of linguistic tools is strictly determined by both intra- and extralinguistic factors and affects all levels of the language. The article determines that linguistic means belonging to a scientific discourse correlate with both the written and oral varieties of this discourse, and with the type of natural language. A review of the distinctive phonetic, lexical, morphological, syntactic characteristics of scientific discourse is given.

Keywords

• scientific discourse
• scientific style
• scientific text
• term
• научный дискурс
• научный стиль
• научный текст
• термин