Abstract
The article discusses a cognitive aspect of multidisciplinary discourse study of the research publications. It is focused on the comparative analysis of the object – objective cognitive structure in the text of English and Russian medical research papers. The object – objective cognitive structure is defined as an underlying relationship of these research categories; its verbal representation is determined by ethnocultural characteristics of academic way of thinking. The study hypothesis and methodology are based on the ideas of Professor Iosif A. Sternin, the Head of Voronezh School of Psycholinguistics, Honoured Scholar of the Russian Federation, who developed an algorithm of comparative analysis to reveal and describe ethnocultural properties of the word, text and discourse. The material of the study involves English and Russian research articles in medical sciences which were analysed by descriptive and comparative methods. The principle findings demonstrated similarities and differences in the verbal representation of the object – objective cognitive structure, which possibly reflect ethnocultural characteristics in the process of the research text interpretation by the recipient. The English research texts show rigid and conventional verbalization the object – objective cognitive structure, its references are found in different parts of the text, the verbalization of the objective is explicit. Verbal representation of the object – objective cognitive structure in Russian texts is less rigid and more variative regarding the implied language means. The corpus demonstrates cases of implicit representation of the objective or even its absence in the Introduction. The reference to the object can be performed with the synonyms. The author argues that these differences in the verbal representation of the object – objective cognitive structure may be determined by ethnocultural characteristics of the national academic reasoning and way of thinking.
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