Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1107918 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2015 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

The paper aims to reveal the role of ethnolinguistic and discursive factors that determine the direction of discursive units’ functioning in an academic text. The issue is dealt with on the basis of academic texts in the German and Russian languages belonging to geological type of academic discourse. The following functional types of discursive markers (DMs) are distinguished: 1) the markers ensuring text coherence, 2) the markers disclosing a speaker's attitude to an utterance, and 3) the markers reflecting the process of interaction between the author and the reader. This article is devoted to consideration of the second group DMs. Comparative analysis of using DMsdiscloses specific ways of presenting academic knowledge and the influence of ethnolinguistic models of academic discourse organization on this variety.

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