Abstract
Every discipline of science has its specifics, and this article strives to explore the specifics of the language used in social science articles written in Latvian. Social sciences affect how our society works; therefore, scientific findings could be important for policy decisions. The material analysed in this article is based on a qualitative analysis of select articles from a corpus of social sciences texts. It is the first large scale text corpus that has collected open access scientific articles published in Latvian. The present article describes language use specifics in social sciences: psychology, economics and business, education, and law. Scientific texts are often created with publishing guidelines in mind, but the individual styles of their authors can still be reflected in the text. Each discipline of science shows unique text creation and language use patterns. Some of these patterns, such as a logical structure in psychology and economics and business, could have been anticipated, however, aspects like the use of informal language in law texts is an unexpected finding. This brief insight into the social science articles in Latvian could be a starting point for more discipline-specific scientific text research in Latvian.
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