THE IDENTITY OF THE AUTHOR OF A SCIENTIFIC TEXT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SENDER AND RECIPIENT

Abstract

The subject of the article is the linguistic means of reflecting in a scientific text the personality of its author in terms of, firstly, the communicative intentions of the author, and secondly, the perception of the recipient of this text. The article also considers the degree of objectivity in the construction of a scientific text. It is shown that the image of the author of a scientific text, revealed in terms of the communicative intentions of the sender of the text, and the image of the author, perceived by its recipient, may not coincide. As a theoretical basis of the study, the observations of M.Yu. Fedosyuk about different types of implicit information were used. On the basis of so-called “subtext” implicit information, i.e. information, the transmission of which was a part of the hidden communicative intentions of the sender of the text, the so-called “intentional” image of the author can be deduced. On the basis of so-called “non-text” implicit information, i.e. information, the transmission of which was not included in the communicative intentions of the sender of the text, the “perceptual” image of the author can be deduced. In addition, as a basis for determining the degree of objectivity of the construction of the text the typology of the observer’s points of view, developed by B.A. Uspensky, was used. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the coincidence of the intentional and perceptual images of the author testifies to the objectivity of the construction of the text, the discrepancy – to its subjectivity.