The thesis focuses on the development of methodological principles of an integrative theoretical and applied approach - linguogenology of research communication - and their application to the analysis of representative English research genres in global socioсоmmunicative context. The procedure of complex genre analysis of research texts has been elaborated, which consequently considers their contextual factors, genre substrates and communication channels, principles of corpus selection, formal structure of texts and their spatial localization, cognitive structuring of texts in terms of functional units and rhetorical strategies, genre elements and linguistic features. The procedure also includes the stage of reverse analysis aimed at verification of the obtained results and a comparative stage when several corpuses are contrasted in order to reveal intergeneric differences and similarities. Various genre parameters obtained during the analysis are generalized as a "genre portrait", or a genrogram. Developing a genrogram is a dynamic process of revealing, collecting and generalizing the most important features of a genre which include their communicative purpose, genre roles of users, place and status of a genre in the genre system, mode (communication channel), substrate ("physical" presentation of a text), type of a genre (micro-, macro-, hyper- or megagenre), ways of its distribution, spatial textual localization, semiotic status, scope of textual implementations and their formal structuring, cognitive and functional organization, genre elements, linguistic features, explicit intergeneric relations and influence of pragmatic (disciplinary or cultural) factors. The procedure of genre analysis has been applied to formal (primary and secondary) and informal genres of English research communication in order to reveal their prominent features, trace the influence of ideology and epistemology of different disciplines on their texts and to conceptualize the general processes that are taking place in the genrosphere of present-day science in the first decades of the 21st century. It has been shown, in particular, that the disciplinary factor dialectically operates on the different levels of the genre of the research article, problematizing, to a certain extent, the traditional division of sciences into hard and soft ones. At the same time this factor acts only within the boundaries set by the communicative goal of the research article and essentially reduces its impact in secondary genres (such as the abstract of the article or, partially, the conference abstract), since their goals suppress disciplinary influences in favour of effective implementation of genre purposes.
