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Title:
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Problems in Information and Linguistic Modeling of Scientific Discourse
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Author:
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Slava Iatsko
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://www.cll.khsu.ru
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Degree Awarded:
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All-Russia Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI)
, Scientific discourse analysis
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Degree Date:
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1998
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Discourse Analysis
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Director(s):
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Rugero Giliarevsky
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Abstract:
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This dissertation discusses theoretical and methodological problems of text
grammar, outlines the conception of scientific discourse structure, and
describes methods of its analysis.
The development of text grammar as a separate linguistic discipline
comprises two main periods. The first one, which in T. Kuhn's terminology
may be described as a normal period, had lasted from the end of the 1960s
till the end of the 1980s. This period is characterized by predominance of
the ideas of communicative syntax, working out the notion of supra-phrasal
unity, studying lexical and grammatical manifestations of connections
between sentences. The second period began in the 1990s. Its main specific
feature is the integral approach based on studying not only the
communicative but also the other aspects of the text such as nominative,
modal, relational. The integral approach to scientific discourse (text)
analysis was suggested in our previous work and is further developed in the
present dissertation. Within the integral approach the emphasis is made on
studying logical relations between judgments expressed by sentences. Three
types of such relations have been described in our works:
diachronic relation characterizing temporal succession of actions or states
of the object, synchronic relation characterizing simultaneous features of
the object, and causative-consecutive relation based on syllogism. These
relations form deep structure (relational aspect) of the text and
correspond to three types of speech: narration, description, and reasoning.
Logical relations between judgments may be manifested or not manifested in
the surface structure of the text (in its communicative aspect). Sometimes
the meaning of lexical and grammatical units in the surface structure
contradicts the nature of logical relations in textual deep structure. E.g.
lexical and grammatical units with causative-consecutive meaning may be
used in narration, not in reasoning. That is why a special method is needed
to reveal logical relations between judgments in textual deep structure.
Such a method, developed in our works, is called the method of
compositional modeling. It includes four procedures: interpretation of
nominative, modal, and communicative aspects; reduction; normalization;
canonization of the text. The application of these procedures makes it
possible 1) to reveal logical relations between judgments in textual deep
structure, 2) to make up a compositional model of the text. The
compositional model of the text may perform the function of information
retrieval, thus being a kind of a secondary source like the other secondary
sources, such as abstracts. So, the study of text's compositional structure
may be of importance not only for linguistics but for information science
as well.
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