Aestheticization of Scientific Texts

Elena Dolzhich,Svetlana Dmitrichenkova

doi:10.1590/1984-6398202116666

Elena Dolzhich, Svetlana Dmitrichenkova

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-6398202116666

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Currently, there is no doubt about the availability of expressive means in the texts of scientific content. The aim of the paper is to analyze aesthetics means in scientific texts due to the author’s individuality and dialogical nature of scientific communication. The research materials are Spanish scientific articles and theses. The findings are discussed regarding the idea that there is a common intertextual space between the text created by the author and other texts that made up the author’s cultural and scientific experience. The conclusion is made that besides the traditional functions of intertextuality in the scientific text there is an aesthetic function.

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1.1 Overview of an Aestheticization ConceptThe term “aestheticization” has become quite common in contemporary philosophical and cultural discourse, primarily in the description of the state of modern culture
Discourse should be understood as texts in indissoluble connection with the situational context, in combination with social, culturalhistorical, ideological, psychological and other factors, with the system of communicative-pragmatic and cognitive purposes of the author interacting with the addressee, which determines the special ordering of linguistic units on different levels during its embodiment within the text
The epigraph, being hardly probable, is perceived as a technique adopted from fiction and has a strong effect of influence serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the scientific text

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The term “aestheticization” has become quite common in contemporary philosophical and cultural discourse, primarily in the description of the state of modern culture. In this context, aestheticization means, first of all, the acquisition of an aesthetic character by those aspects of modern life that previously remained far from the traditional subject of aesthetics. There is no doubt about the presence of expressive means in texts of scientific content. Expressiveness and aestheticization, in the sense of the best way to implement communication taking into account the characteristics of communication in this field, are essential communicative features of the scientific speech. Studying the expressive aspect of the scientific style appears to be relevant and timely. The use of expressive means in scientific speech is conditioned by such its quality as dialogicality, that is, by establishing contact with the recipient of the message (BERENIKE HERRMANN; BERBER SARDINHA, 2015; LAKIC et al, 2015; NASCIMENTO SOUTO, 2015)

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