Abstract

This article aims at analysing metastuctures and their functions in specialised varieties of English discourse, scientific and technical (sphere of robotics). It also provides all illustrations of how methods and techniques of corporal linguistics can be used to examine the discourse metastuctures in the following genres: monograph, dissertation, research article, patent and report. The aim of every scientific and technical text consists not only in supplying information, but also in delivering it to the reader in the best way for him/her to understand. That is usually achieved with the help of metastructures. The research is conducted with the help of AntConc, the instrument of the corpus-oriented method of a discursive analysis, to get statistic data. In addition a critical discursive analysis method is applied to overcome some fallacies of AntConc. All the selected metastructures were divided into nine groups according to the function fulfilled: explanation, cutting down details, dialogisation, confirmation of the mentioned above by illustration, table, graph, etc., text formation, evaluation, comment, acknowledgment, attention attraction. The results of this article stress that all studied genres are characterized by metadiscursiveness expressed by metastructures in various functions providing better understanding of the authors’ intentions that is depicted in the summary able of these functions in all the genres mentioned above.

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