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ПРАГМАТИКА НАУЧНОГО ДИСКУРСА
PRAGMATICS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE

Author(s): Natalia Aleksandrovna Mishankina
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Новосибирский государственный педагогический университет
Keywords: Language of science; scientific discourse; conceptual metaphor; metaphorical modeling; pragmatics.

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the pragmatic intentions of scientific humanitarian text and dis-course which are realized both at the level of scientific communication and at the level of con-ceptual modeling of the scientific description object. The methodology of the research is based on the theory of conceptual metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson where the metaphor is considered as a cognitive activity associated with analogy processes. The conceptual metaphor used by the scientific text author for research object representation becomes a focus of their pragmatic intentions and implicitly transmits them to the text receivers through the system of tex-tual metaphors being as a basic tool of modeling. In this respect the scientific text preserving the obvious parameters of objectiveness expresses author’s pragmatic (incl. evaluative) attitude. The academic texts in the sphere of philosophy, linguistics and history have become the source material for specification of the ways of metaphorical modeling of the scientific text pragmatic aspects.

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