UDC

81ʼ42+801.7

DOI

10.17238/issn2227-6564.2019.1.39

Authors

Irina G. Zhirova
Moscow Region State University; Perevedenovskiy per. 5/7, Moscow, 105082, Russian Federation;
e-mail: zhirova557@yandex.ru

Abstract

This article deals with science as a means of communication between the author of an academic text and the academic community as a receiver of that information. Communication in science is a special kind of activity consisting of both production and perception of linguistic signs for the purpose of transmitting scientific information. The numerous multidisciplinary research programmes being developed indicate an integration of sciences and contribute to the emergence of extended systems of scientific knowledge. Efficient research consisting of two equivalent methods (analysis of existing knowledge and synthesis of new knowledge) requires a comprehensive consideration of the main object of research: the academic text. the communicative-information approach to the study of the academic text considers it to be a result of world cognition. Structural and content analysis of the academic narrative allows us to determine its formalization and abstraction levels, as well as the scope of scientific information presented in it. Academic language is a special type of language having its own terminological system, while branchspecific knowledge is a unique information layer, whose stratification is enhanced by terminological systems. Academic language is not only a communicative, but also a modelling system, able to transmit information and process it in a certain way. The most significant method for exploring the academic language is the linguistic statistical method allowing one to measure both the semantic information capacity of a language and its flexibility.

Keywords

academic text, academic communication, scientific knowledge, academic language, terminological system

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