scholarly journals Functional and stylistic types of special vocabulary in scientific and technical texts (based on English and German aviation vocabulary)

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
N. S. Sharafutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Popular Science ◽  
Electronic Journals ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Modern Language

The article is devoted to the consideration of the typology of special vocabulary in the modern language of technology and the study of the proportion of functional and stylistic types of special lexical units (terms, nomens, pragmonyms, terminoids, professionalisms) in scientific and technical texts of various genres. To study the ratio of the types of special vocabulary, popular scientific articles from aviation electronic journals, individual chapters of Ph.D. theses as well as fragments of aviation textbooks in English and German were analyzed. The total volume of the studied texts is 180, 000 characters (30,000 characters for each genre in one language). Based on this material, 2,426 English special lexical units and 2,465 German special lexical units were identified and distributed into separate categories. As a result of the study, it was found that the proportion of types of special vocabulary in scientific and technical texts of the corresponding genres in English and German is approximately the same. In all analyzed popular science, scientific and educational texts, the proportion of terms considerably prevails. The largest number of terms is used in educational texts. In popular science texts, nomens are used more often than in texts of other genres. Terminoids and professionalisms are very rarely used in the studied texts.

scholarly journals IDENTIFICATION OF ARGUMENTATIVE RELATIONS IN POPULAR SCIENCE TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Vasilievna Salomatina ◽  
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Irina Semenovna Kononenko ◽  
Elena Anatolvna Sidorova ◽  
Ivan Sergeevich Pimenov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Topic Model ◽  
Topic Models ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Automatic Recognition ◽  
Scan Statistics ◽  
Science Texts

The presented work describes the analysis of argumentative statements included into the same text topic fragment as a recognition feature in terms of its efficiency. This study is performed with the purpose of using this feature in automatic recognition of argumentative structures presented in the popular science texts written in Russian. The topic model of a text is constructed based on superphrasal units (text fragments united by one topic) that are identified by detecting clusters of words and word-combinations with the use of scan statistics. Potential relations, extracted from topic models, are verified through the use of texts with manually annotated argumentation structures. The comparison between potential (based on topic models) and manually constructed relations is performed automatically. Macro-average scores of precision and recall are equal to 48.6% and 76.2% correspondingly.

scholarly journals FOREIGN WORDS: ON THE ISSUES OF FUNCTIONING AND TRANSLATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (10(78)) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Olga Grynko
Keyword(s):  
Popular Science ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Relevant Feature ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Foreign Word ◽  
Stylistic Device ◽  
Individual Style

When used in the texts, foreign words often function as a stylistic device and become a relevant feature of the author’s individual style. The article looks at the issues of functioning and translation of foreign words with the focus on those not being “adapted”, that is preserving its original “foreign” form (unlike those being transcribed without morphological and syntactical changes). The work systematizes the ways these elements are introduced into the original text. It shows they can either be introduced with no explanation, relying on the reader’s general expertise and creating certain environment, flavour etc. or be accompanied by any kind of their meaning’s explanation). The article also offers the insights into the key functions of the foreign words in popular-science texts (specifically, they make the text sound more authentic and documentary, and also display author’s intelligence and competence). Further, the research finalizes the classification of the ways to translate/render the foreign words in the translated text in the view of the genre peculiarities of popular-science texts. Among other ways, such as preserving a foreign word with a translation of the author’s comment, transcription/transliteration, translator’s comments, actual translation into the target language, etc., such texts allow for science editor’s comments in translation.

scholarly journals LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FEATURES OF THE TRANSLATION OF POPULAR SCIENCE TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (80) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. O. Babyatinskaya ◽  
I. N. Hroza ◽  
K. S. Guseinova
Keyword(s):  
Popular Science ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Lexical Semantic

scholarly journals O TEXTO DE DIVULGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA NA ABORDAGEM DA SOCIOLOGIA DA CIÊNCIA: UM ESTUDO DA REVISTA MINAS FAZ CIÊNCIA / THE POPULAR SCIENCE TEXTS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE APPROACH: A STUDY OF THE MINAS FAZ CIÊNCIA MAGAZINE

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Gabriela Belini Gontijo ◽  
Jane Raquel Silva de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Science Approach

O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar características da sociologia da ciência em textos de divulgação científica da Minas faz Ciência, uma revista brasileira publicada por uma agência estadual de apoio à pesquisa científica. Foram selecionados doze textos dessa revista, os quais continham informações sobre a o percurso adotado pelo cientista para o desenvolvimento de sua pesquisa. Os textos selecionados foram analisados por meio da Análise Textual Discursiva, adotando-se como referenciais teóricos estudos sobre sociologia da ciência de Bruno Latour. Nas análises, identificamos as seguintes características da prática da ciência: aspectos persuasivos na ciência; ciência como construção coletiva; influência de fatores externos na construção dos fatos; dinâmica de trabalho do pesquisador; e o ciclo de credibilidade na ciência. Os resultados evidenciam que tais textos podem ser usados para abordagem de aspectos da sociologia da ciência em sala de aula.

scholarly journals GENRE INDUCTION FROM A LINGUISTIC APPROACH

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Angvarrah Lieungnapar ◽  
Richard Watson Todd ◽  
Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Computer Programs ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Test Set ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Functional Relations ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Linguistic Approach

In most current work on genre, a set of genre categories needs to be predetermined. However, there are some cases where such predetermined genres cannot be clearly identified. Popular science, for instance, is a broad register carrying several specific purposes within it, suggesting that there are several genres of popular science, but it is unclear what these genres are. This paper introduces a linguistic approach to reveal hidden genres. For 600 written popular science texts from a variety of sources and disciplines, linguistic features were analysed using a range of computer programs and a cluster analysis conducted. The analysis produced four clusters with shared linguistic features, representing text types. The association of these text types with key features, functional relations, dominant sources, and prototypical members of each cluster helps us to induce genres on the basis of communicative purposes, a traditional criterion in identifying genres. Whether the produced text types are equivalent to genres was evaluated with a test set of data. The proposed approach achieves more than 70 % accuracy. The approach appears applicable for identifying genres of popular science and has pedagogical implications.

scholarly journals Influence of photography on students’ perception of electronic popular science text

2021 ◽  
pp. e021025
Author(s):  
Natalia Igorevna Khristoforova
Keyword(s):  
Popular Science ◽  
Information Network ◽  
Science Text ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Modern Computer ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
The Impact

The present article analyzes the relevance of the combination of the verbal and non-verbal components of popular science text and the role of computer technologies and the global information network Internet in creating texts of this type. The author conducts a study to assess the impact of Internet technologies on the process of creating electronic popular science text in an attempt to determine the most promising technologies used in this process. The author concludes that the most advanced technologies have to be used in creating a popular science text. It is noted that the Internet era opens up new opportunities for creating popular science texts, however, the most effective way to create popular science texts combines verbal and non-verbal means (primarily photographs) and modern computer technologies. An important aspect of popular science text is a trend towards the reduction in volume which is achieved through photographs often replacing lengthy descriptions and explanations. Considering the polysemantic nature of photography and the stabilizing function of a text in relation to an image, an approach to the consideration of verbal and visual components in the framework of popular science text is proposed.

scholarly journals Speech methods of representation of scientific knowledge as a tool for increasing reader interest to popular science texts (based on the material of online versions of journals)

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 11029
Author(s):  
Yana Kosyakova
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Science Discourse ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Speech Patterns ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of this work is to: 1) identify, study and analyze speech methods of updating scientific knowledge as a tool for influencing the reader's consciousness; 2) identify potential criteria for increasing the audience's interest in the presented scientific knowledge in the aspect of popular science discourse on the example of popular science articles from selected journals for analysis; 3) describe the influencing potential of these speech methods of presenting knowledge to the addressee. Methodology. The influencing potential of media sources that increase the interest of the readership is revealed through a series of studies describing the factors and methods of popularizing scientific knowledge in modern media on the basis of intersecting discourses (social-political, pedagogical, medical, etc.). The research is also based on the method of continuous sampling in the selection of practical material, the method of quantitative and qualitative analysis. The article substantiates the most effective and frequent speech patterns.

scholarly journals Journalistic practices of science popularization in the context of users’ agenda: A case study of „New Scientist”

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Science Popularization ◽  
News Value

The article includes a discussion of two models which describe contemporary communication processes in journalism: agenda-setting and news value, indicating the need to expand their research tools to include qualitative methods, and merging the analyses of the reception and the message. It also includes indications as to the possibility, or even the social relevance, of the methods for applying those research perspectives to analysing journalism popularising science. Later, I present the results of an analysis of the content of a sample of 500 most read popular science texts available on the New Scientist website. I demonstrate which thematic areas were valued by the readers, and what values are most commonly applied. Further, upon applying a filter in the form of surveys regarding reader preferences, I discuss the main linguistic devices utilised for controlling readers’ attention. The shaping of the hierarchy of importance of items of news is the result of a dynamic interaction between (1) the thematic priorities and discursive strategies of imposing elite representations of science within media agenda, and (2) the means of negotiating order and values of specific content, which are correlated with readers’ preferences, both in terms of the content and the form of providing popular scientific information.

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