The problem of determination of the key semantic components in abstracting a scientific text
The constantly growing scope of scientific publications determines the heightened interest of researchers towards abstracting as one of the methods to present a concise version of the content of the source text. This defines the relevance of this work, which discusses the problem of transition from the source text to its abstract interpretation. Based on the example of the English-language scientific article on social psychology, an attempt is made to explore the criteria for determining the key semantic components in the process of abstracting at the stage of understanding the source text. The theoretical overview of scientific papers, which cover the topic of abstracting a scientific text, as well as comparative analysis of the source text and derivative text, allowed formulating the main patterns in interpretation of the logical-semantic and discursive structure of the source text as one of the stages of the process of abstracting. It is established that in the process of understanding the text, the recipient, analyzing the links between statements, integrates them into a semantic formation, based on personal assumptions on the possible functional purpose of this text fragment. Upon completion of the process of understanding the text, the recipient deduces the knowledge on the communicative intention of the author of the text and the role of each section of the text. It appears that namely this knowledge becomes the foundation for the development of propositional model of the source text, which serves as the basis for creating the abstract text.