Abstract
This work is focused on the problem of genre specificity within the English language academic discourse of today. The goal of the research is to reveal and analyze system relations regularly and steadily showing themselves within one definite genre of the student essay, their significance and role in the official university communicative space. The abovesaid relations can be found at both the structural level, i.e. in the special text arrangement of essays, and at the conceptual level of the genre. The basic investigation methods are: interpretation and classification of the material; linguistic observation and description; componential analysis of dictionary definitions; comparison and contrasting; linguistic, functional and stylistic, genre analysis of the text; context and discourse analysis; argumentative illustration tool. The practical value can be viewed as a possibility to apply the investigation results in teaching; e.g. during the courses of English, language culture studies, linguadidactics, cross-cultural pragmatics. The authors conclude that student essay text demonstrate closely interweaving paradigmatic, syntagmatic and epidigmatic links. Paradigmatics is represented by semantic and conceptual categories of systemity, integrity, cohesion and closeness. Discourse syntagmatic categories are characterized by linguosemantic consistency, linearity, remoteness, parallelism. Epidigmatic systemity can be traced as the availability of derivative words.
Highlights
The growing role of science in the modern world leads to linguistic research in academic writing genres
The academic essay is aimed at: 1. Demonstration of deep knowledge on the topic, this knowledge based upon research and studies of scientific and popular scientific literature
In the academic essay the producer uses and reexamines information he has obtained during lectures and seminars, as well as while reading scientific and popular scientific literature
Summary
The growing role of science in the modern world leads to linguistic research in academic writing genres. To create a text correctly, a university student must show academic literacy. The academic essay is considered as an academic discourse genre which has gained a special importance today due to it being part of university education and the international exam format (IELTS, TOEFL, CAE, CPE). It means that the number of potential producers of this kind of text is not limited to university undergraduates. Among them are candidates with a degree that are taking a language exam to certify their level to further get a chance to be employed or enrolled in another university course abroad as well as language and teaching experts (majoring in English) willing to certify or improve their qualification
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