Nayenko G. Structural-semantic and functional parameters of Old Ukrainian scientific text of the 16-18th

The dissertation's aim is to establish and describe typological features of Old Ukrainian scientific texts of the 16-18th centuries, the author's analysis taking into acccount the reconstructed image of science in language consciousness of the period, in particular without differentiating religious and profane scholarty sources. In elucidating scientific text generation resources of that time, the author uses findings and achievements obtained by modern functional-stylistic, text-linguistic and communicative-functional studies in the field of scientific text that center upon its meangful structure. She also demonstrates the notion of scientific text informativeness as manifested by technical words, or terminologye, distinguished by means of glosses, etymological and hypo-/hyperonymic definitions. Also, she traces the formation of means of explication of obligatory categoris of Old Ukrainian scientific text, such as marcers of prospection and retrcerospection, text segmentation etc. as well as showing processes of development of standard language, codification, and individuation in scientific text production field. The author argues that, with respect to the explication of difference between new and previous knowledge, designation of methods, and coherence, the texts she analizes are a fuzzy set. She proposes a typology of scientific texts based on the opposition between nuclear and peripheral text types correlated with religious / profane discourse.