THE ROLE OF TERMS IN CREATING THE TEXT CATEGORY OF INFORMATIVITY IN ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE OF DIFFERENT GENRES
The article is devoted to the contrastive analysis of four genres in English scientific discourse - an academic scientific-technical article, a scientific-popular article, a scientific-technical report at a conference and an academic lecture. The interrelationship between such text categories as informativity, the author and the addressee positions with the usage of power engineering terms is studied in the above mentioned genres. The basic tendencies in the degree of special terms concentration are considered in different genres of scientific discourse comprising three types of factual information (highly specialized, non-specialized, basic scientific information).