ANGLO-AMERICAN SCHOOLS OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ACADEMIC DISCOURSE GENRES

Svitlana Shcherbyna

doi:10.20535/2410-8286.131690

Abstract

The article presents a critical review of research works dedicated to Anglo-American scientific communication debates on academic discourse genres. This study shows that Standard English represented by British English and American English dominates in Anglo-American scientific communication. It has been assumed that Anglo-American academic discourse, as a scientific notion of discourse study is a hybrid term used to identify two interrelated types of discourse: instructional-pedagogical discourse that comprises teaching and learning practices in educational establishment and research-oriented discourse relating to research data sharing between different discourse communities. The results of the present study have revealed the internal genre taxonomy of Anglo-American research-oriented discourse identified by criterion academic spoken or written communication, with spoken research genres further divided into research report, conference presentation, roundtable discussions, dissertation defence and written research genres divided into research article, monograph, dissertation, abstract, and summary. The research article is claimed to be the leading research genre recognised by a distinct rhetorical structure: Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion and Conclusions. Finally, three main approaches to genre analysis introduced by Anglo-American scientific communication schools have been overviewed, namely neo-rhetorical (North American New Rhetoric Studies), sociocultural (Australian systematic functional linguistics) and linguo-didactic approach (English for Specific Purposes).

Highlights

Modern Science of the 21st century has not just become international in terms of the world information processes aimed at establishing worldwide contacts between scientists and researchers, but it has acquired the status of being Global and Cross-Cultural
Is the notion ―academic discourse‖ widely used by native speakers – experts in the field of scientific communication? And if so, what meaning do they put in this concept? To find an answer to this question, as well as to analyse the concept of Anglo-American academic discourse within the scope of linguogeneology, the following methods have been used: the method of analysis and synthesis, the method of genre discourse analysis, the notions taxonomy method, and the interpretation method
Standard English represented by British English and American English dominates in modern AngloAmerican scientific communication

Summary

Introduction

Modern Science of the 21st century has not just become international in terms of the world information processes aimed at establishing worldwide contacts between scientists and researchers, but it has acquired the status of being Global and Cross-Cultural. These processes have become primarily beneficial to scholars and researchers all over the world able to obtain the latest information in different fields and communicate with their colleagues throughout the world. The Inner circle refers to native speakers from the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The representatives of this circle use typical communicative samples (Kapranov, 2018). The Expanding Circle includes those who use English as a foreign language (Kachru, 1992, p. 48-74)

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