The article deals with pragmatic features of weak criticism in research articles treated as the main genre of English-language scientific discourse. The issue has been studied in a corpus of 350 English-language research articles in Anthropology, Economics, Education, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. The methods used in the research include definitive, component, text, text-interpretation, pragmatic-functional, quantitative analysis as well as cognitive-discursive interpretation method. The article describes criteria used to refer a critical remark to any given pragmatic type of criticism in research articles in English. These include formal features of critical remarks (extendedness / unextendedness of a critical remark), content features (belonging of a critical remark to a personal / impersonal type), means of negative evaluation (explicit (lexical or lexico-grammatical) means of negative evaluation or implicit means), presence / absence of mitigation devices and boosters. It has been found out that weak critical remarks are unextended, impersonal, and contain implicit or explicit lexico-grammatical means of negative evaluation. The study has shown that in most weak critical remarks negative evaluation is carried out with explicit lexico-grammatical means. The results obtained have indicated that the percentage of weak critical remarks in research articles depends on a particular academic discipline. The study shows that research articles in Linguistics, Economics, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology and Law contain more weak critical remarks than research articles in Literature, Political Science, Education and History.

Статья посвящена рассмотрению прагматических характеристик слабой критики в научной статье – ведущем жанре англоязычного научного дискурса. Подробно описаны критерии для установления соответствия конкретного критического замечания тому или иному прагматическому типу критики. Установлено, что слабая критика актуализируется нераспространенными, безличными критическими замечаниями, в которых негативная оценка реализована имплицитно или эксплицитно лексико-грамматическими средствами и обычно присутствуют маркеры митигации. Представлен количественный анализ использования слабой критики в научных статьях с 10 гуманитарных дисциплин.

англомовний науковий дискурс

жанр

стаття

критика

критичне зауваження

прагматичний тип

прагматичні характеристики

слабка критика

English-language scientific discourse

article

criticism

critical remark

pragmatic type

pragmatic features

weak criticism