Epistemic situation as a semantic unit of scientific texts in stylistic and rhetorical aspects Cover Image

ЭПИСТЕМИЧЕСКАЯ СИТУАЦИЯ КАК СМЫСЛОВАЯ ЕДИНИЦА НАУЧНОГО ТЕКСТАВ СТИЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ И РИТО-РИЧЕСКОМ АСПЕКТАХ
Epistemic situation as a semantic unit of scientific texts in stylistic and rhetorical aspects

(towards term development)

Author(s): Maria Kotiurova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: scientific text; scientific knowledge; semantic unit of scientific text; epistemic situation; stylistic analysis; rhetorical effect

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the epistemic situation understood as a semantic unit of scientific texts. An epistemic situation comprises the substantial aspects of the content – ontological (represented by the terminized concept), methodological (how knowledge is acquired and in what form it is verbalized) and axiological (correlated with value characteristics of knowledge). A language system possesses a wide range of means that can explain the epistemic situation. The rhetorical analysis consists of determining the dominant characteristics of the text, conditioned by dynamics of the epistemic situation – the dynamics which help to appeal to the addressee.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: XXV
  • Page Range: 485-498
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian