Konkova, I. I. ANALYSIS OF METASTRUCTURE FUNCTIONS IN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DISCOURSE (ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE MATERIAL). Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2023;45(4):70–74. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2023.906


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ANALYSIS OF METASTRUCTURE FUNCTIONS IN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DISCOURSE (ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE MATERIAL)

Konkova
I. I. 		National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University
Keywords:
metastructure
metadiscursiveness
scientific and technical discourse
corpus-oriented discourse analysis method
AntConc		 Summary: The article deals with the functions of metastructures in the scientific and technical discourse on the material of English scientific articles (journal Robotics) freely available on the Internet applying the method of the corpus-oriented discourse analysis. The relevance of the work is due to the lack of the researches on metastructures in the mentioned above discourse type especially using the corpus-based approach. The instrument AntConc is used to perform more accurate statistic analysis of the metastructure functions frequency. Moreover, AntConc provides the possibility to figure out lexics variation of the metastructure in the certain function. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to identify and describe metastructures functions in the scientific and technical discourse. All the functions are classified into seven groups: interpretation function, evaluation function, confirmation of the facts mentioned above by illustration, text formation function, details reduction function, dialogue function and comment function. The article concludes that the most and the least frequent usage of metastructures in the certain function is explained by the authors’ intentions to follow the reader’s reception process and by the recipient’s competence as well.



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