Seminar 3. The scientific prose and official documents styles

Objective: to raise your awareness of the linguistic specificity of the scientific prose and official documents styles; to clarify their pragmatic functions; to discuss peculiarities of their sub-styles

Questions to be discussed

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. The aim of the functional style of scientific prose

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. The vocabulary of the style of scientific prose

3. Syntactical patterns of the style of scientific prose

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. The aim and usage sphere of the style of official documents

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. The sub-styles and compositional patterns of style of official documents

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ractical tasks

1. Provide the following notions with definition

notion	definition
compositional design
denotative meaning
determinization
frame
language of business documents
language of diplomacy
language of legal documents
language of military documents
officialese

notion	definition
style of scientific prose
subject-neutral vocabulary
terminological nomenclature

2. Provide the following terms with examples from scientific prose

term	example
argumentative sentence
formulative sentence
interdisciplinary term
postulatory sentence
semantically narrow term

3. Describe the stylistic peculiarities of the extracts below in general and state to what professional activity the italicized units belong.

The airspeed indicator or airspeed gauge is an instrument used in an aircraft to display the craft’s airspeed, typically in knots, to the pilot. In its simplest form, an ASI measures the difference in pressure between that which is generally around the craft and the increased pressure caused by propulsion. The needle tracks pressure differential but the dial is marked off as airspeed.

stylistic peculiarities	professional activity
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Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare disease disrupting cellular proliferation and growth. This open-label study examined the efficacy of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor everolimus on lymphatic abnormalities in LAM. The five patients experienced significant shrinkage or complete resolution of their lymphangioleiomyomas during treatment.

stylistic peculiarities	professional activity
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stylistic peculiarities	professional activity
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