THE STUDY OF THE STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF THE SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DISCOURSE TEXT
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2018-7-15-18
The article deals with the question of studying the structural properties of the academic medical discourse text of such type as “Original Research”, based on the material of the New England medical journal. It provides the characteristic of text-Background, text-Methods, text-Discussion, text-Results and text-Conclusions. The article presents the examples of the implementation of the information content of the above texts of the article in Russian in comparison with the submission of information in English. It describes the specifics of the linguistic manifestations of English sentences presenting the text of a medical journal article under study. It demonstrates the result of studying of what the text of the article of academic medical discourse is. The most significant factor of the study is that the analyzed article text is considered as a scientific conversation with colleagues, whose purpose is to discuss participation in the conduct of statistical analysis and public presentation of the results of research activities and intended for a narrow circle of specialists using natural science concepts and methods, information, bibliographic resources and medical and biological terminology in solving professional problems can be defined by verbal constructions, consistent and inconsistent definitions, prepositional and non-prepositional combinations of nouns with adjectives, nests of words, letter abbreviations (acronyms) and correlates with medical terminology by German and Latin symbols in written form.
Keywords: the article text of academic medical discourse, text structure, text-Background, text-Methods, text- Discussion, text-Results, text-Conclusions, the New England Journal of Medicine
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Issue: 7, 2018
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: TOPICAL ISSUES OF COGNITIVE-DISCURSIVE LINGUISTICS AND TEXT LINGUISTICS
Pages: 15 — 18
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