Title Specifics of Science Popularisation Text Language /
Translation of Title Mokslo populiarinamųjų tekstų kalbos ypatybės.
Authors Petrėnienė, Ona
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Keywords [eng] stylistics ; science popularisation texts ; general public ; means of linguistic expression
Abstract [eng] The dissertation deals with science popularisation texts (SP texts) aimed at general public. Science popularisation is perceived as communicational interaction between a scientist and the general public, as presentation of basic knowledge and facts about science and technology to the public in a popular and understandable way. The goal of this paper is to identify the linguistic qualities of SP texts that distinguish the texts in question from other kinds of texts and allow considering SP texts a separate type of text. It has been established that the linguistic expression of SP texts is heavily affected by the non-linguistic element of the addresser. If the addresser affected in a focused way, the subject texts display the function of impact, which is created using expressive means. In SP texts, the means of expression relates to realisation of objective intellectual content and perform the function of information. Contamination of the means of expression with varying stylistical value is the constructive principle of SP texts. Statistical analysis has revealed that Lithuanian language SP texts of different science fields of their morphological and syntactical parameters are homogenous. The general parameters of sentence length place SP texts in between scientific and publicity texts, and the morphological structure of the SP texts has confirmed their similarity to scientific texts.
Type Summaries of doctoral thesis
Language English
Publication date 2011