THE SCIENTIFIC PROSE STYLE (THE SUBSTYLE OF POPULAR SCIENTIFIC PROSE).

manuals, monographs, articles, presentations, theses, dissertations, etc. The aim of the sc prose style is to prove a hypothesis, to create new concepts, to disclose the internal laws of existence, development, relations between different phenomena. Sc prose is objective, precise, lucid, and unemotional, devoid of any individuality; there is also a striving for the most generalized form of expression and logicality.

Objectivity is gained by the use of quotations, references, digressions, “we” instead of “I”, passive constructions, it-sentences, non-finite verb forms(participial, gerundial, infinitive complexes), generalizations(the linguists would say here…)

Logical sequence is obtained by use of extended system of connectives, extended complex & compound sent with subordinate clauses, homogeneous members)

Lucidity – terms, neologisms, formulas.

The addressee factor is an important factor for singling out the substyle of popular sc prose.

Popular scientific texts address the audience at large, anyone whom the topic may concern or interest. That is why, even containing many of the enumerated styleforming features, popular scientific texts abound in 1) explanations that accompany terms, 2) illustrative examples from everyday life. 3) lowered in style, more digestible 4)use of expressive means (em coloured wds, expressive syntax:gradation, antithesis, rhetorical?, parallel constructions; lexical SD (metaphors, similies); 5) colloquial elements.

So, they stand close to the language of everyday speech and analytical journalistic texts.

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