International journal
ISSN 2311-0759 (Online)
ISSN 2311-0740 (Print)


научный дискурс

Шутить(,) нельзя(,) публиковать: юмор в научных заголовках

Настоящее исследование посвящено анализу заголовков научной периодики, содержащих юмористические импликатуры, за период с 2015 по 2024 гг. Поставленные задачи включали установление наличия тенденции к увеличению или уменьшению заголовков с включением юмора и выявление основных средств и приемов юморопорождения. Авторы, подчеркивая крайнюю немногочисленность подобного рода заголовков, одновременно отмечают их ценность и уникальность с точки зрения семантики, лексики и синтаксиса.

Variability in the manifestation of authorship in academic abstracts: Comparison of humanitarian and natural science discourses

The article deals with the problem of the intradiscursive variability of the speech genre of the abstract. The article aims to identify the variability of the manifestation of the author's principle in the verbal genre of abstract functioning in academic discourse. 38 Russian-language abstracts to linguistic academic articles published in the journal “Genres of Speech” in 2023 and 34 Russian-language abstracts to biological academic articles published in the “Journal of General Biology” in 2022 were selected as the base of the study.

Article Hedges vs boosters: Communicative mitigation and enhancement in the genre of dissertation review

The article presents the results of the cross-disciplinary research which focuses on the two types of discourse markers – hedges and boosters and their use in Russian official dissertation reviews. The study is based on reviews of official opponents and external reviewers of PhD theses on linguistics, literary criticism, history, physics, chemistry and medicine. The reviews were borrowed from the online pages of dissertation councils of Russian universities.

Video article as a speech genre

Modern communication is greatly influenced by digital technologies which make available a new type of communication – hybrid oral-written communication, that is texts which contain both verbal and non-verbal components. This research is focused on a video article as a speech genre of academic communication, which appeared relatively recently on digital scientometric platforms. The article describes constitutive features of a video article, its discourse features, and its functional requirements.

“CONDENSATION OF GENRES” AS A TREND IN MEDIA SPHERE

The article analyzes media genres interaction through the primary media sphere genre – news. The author gives opinions of researchers on the mixing of genres, lists genres which have undergone significant changes in the modern media sphere. The analysis is based on the news from the regional media field – one of Novgorod’s Internet resources. Analysis of four news texts published in November 2017 shows that the news includes a report, a journalistic story, an academic article, an announcement, a biographical note.

Object Clauses in Academic Discourse: Genre Preferences

The author of the article understands object clauses as a semantic type of sentences with a set of different ways of expressing semantics: polypredicative subordinate clauses, asyndetic clauses, monopredicative clauses, clauses with parenthesis. It is suggested that the set of constructions used in academic discourse depends on the genre of the academic text. The genres of article abstracts and thesis summaries as secondary texts (texts about texts) were chosen as a material for a comparative study.