Abstract. The paper deals with the functioning of epistemic situation as a unit of meaning in the academic text in terms of correlation of these units with the main strategies of a cognitive process: inductive and deductive. The epistemic situation includes three interrelated components -ontological, methodological, and axiological. The ontological component is based on scientific knowledge, which represents the content of the academic text. The methodological component unites the methods, ways and techniques of acquiring knowledge; and the axiological component is implemented through various language means, which express the assessment of knowledge received by predecessors or by the text's author. We emphasize that the meaning structure of the academic text has a systematic nature, and its functioning and development are determined by the contradictions between "old" and "new" knowledge, with the text aimed at unfolding the latter one. The paper introduces a statement that text and speech units as text fragments have a circular logical structure formed by alternating inductive and deductive assumptions. This statement is illustrated using modern theoretical texts by prominent Russian linguists. Moreover, the findings are used when analyzing the translated texts of the academic discourse from French into Russian based on the concept of translation space as a synergetic translation model.Studying the meaning structure lets reveal that its content corresponds to the term system shaping the ontological aspect of knowledge. On the other hand, terms are subordinate to the methodological aspect forming the so-called "protection shield" of the ontological essence of the content. But cohesive meaning units -epistemic situations -may only arise when the axiological aspect is explicitly presented, in particular, when the text is characterized by novelty, argumentativeness, accuracy and significance for the academic community, which reflects the author's discourse individual features.
This article represents the research of interpretative (subjective) approach to the correlation of adjacent linguistic branches — speechology and stylistics of an academic text. The explanatory cognitive-discursive and stylistic approach to solving the problem relies on the principles of the functional style concept developed by the Perm Scientific School led by Prof. M. N. Kozhina, in particular, on the unity of two sides of text — the linguistic one (that is its meaning structure) and the extralinguistic one (its meaning as a given). The unlimited variety of particular texts (even only in the academic and cognitive sphere of human activities) is one of significant reasons for applying a “soft” interpretative approach for the object analysis in speechology and functional stylistics (this approach always depends on the subject of analysis and is therefore subjective). The meaning text structure has a categorical and gradual character and that is why it correlates with the issue of the model academic text. Through the imposition of categories/parameters of this “categorical thermometer”, the speech phenomena are qualified as style-forming (that is significant for stylistics of academic speech) and non-style-forming (or discursive) which are significant for speechology. The extralinguistic base correlates with the factors which are located on the scale “farther — closer” against the subject of cognitive activity. “Farther” is a form of public conscience (corresponding type of activity and thinking), “closer” is a style of academic thinking, a personal cognitive style, an individual speech style of an academic, a language personality. The dominant and style-forming factors strongly influence the selection and appropriate use of language units, creation of a text by an author and perception of a text by a reader, as well as the interpretation of a text by a researcher in the field of functional stylistics. The academic text is being formed under the influence of differently orientated factors (towards the object and the subject), which are discursive and non-style-forming in the framework of one style. The discursive factors can operate as strong ones and weak ones (peripheral, optional) in the framework of one style. Their impact is comprehensive and appropriate as well as implicit and diverse — that is why their further differentiation is interpretative (subjective). The focus of speechology is just the research of non-style-forming extralinguistic factors.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
customersupport@researchsolutions.com
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.