Scientific Text as a Culturally Specific Phenomenon (Based on English Scientific Texts)
The paper presents a scientific text as a culturally specific product of language system. The study is based on the following theoretical ground: cultural specificity is agreed to be one of the characteristics of a text. Analysis of the scientific text corpus in the Humanities field written by English-speaking scholars revealed that dialogue orientation plays a key role in the texts. This feature is realized with the help of the category of addressee orientation which is described in this study in terms of communicative strategy and communicative tactics.