Malykhina S. The Functional aspect of "reported speech in the scientific text.

The thesis is devoted to examining the means of reproduction of "reported speech". This term is understood in a broad sense, meaning other people’s ideas, thoughts, opinions. In our approach to discourse analysis, dialogue is one of the fundamental structuring principles of all discourses (according to Bakhtin and Voloshinov). Thus we take into consideration the situation of utterance, the authorial intention and insist on the necessity of including a description of the individual reader. The analysis is based on examining the phenomenon in scientific discourse. There are two different types of Scientific discourse: the scientific discourse in proper sense ("instructional" pragmatics) and the polemical scientific discourse ("creative" pragmatics). In the books, reviews, articles, the canon tends to be defined not for specific readers, but for — and by — a dominant social group. The polemical discourse disrupts the schemata through conventional (even ‘ready-made’) text and language structures. Among ot her instances, the scientific-journalistic prose disrupts rigid and strongly-held schemata.