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Title article: Disciplinary-thematic field as a categorical element of topos in the chronotope of English academic discourse
UDC: 141.3:81'42:811.111
Section: PHILOLOGY
Authors: Tserkovnov Sergey A.
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Introduction. The chronotope as an object of philological research was first recorded in the works of M. M. Bakhtin and is currently being considered from the standpoint of various disciplines. In this paper, we draw attention to the disciplinary-thematic field as a potential form of implementation of the chronotope of scientific and academic discourse and propose to interpret the chronotope of scientific discourse as a significant relationship of temporal and spatial relations cognitively mastered in science, while treating the spatial component of the scientific text (its “topos”) as special disciplinary-thematic coordinates, object-subject boundaries of scientific research, indicating its place in the subject-thematic field of other studies in the chosen field. The purpose of this study was to consider the degree of verbalization of the disciplinary-thematic field in the texts of the English scientific discourse as the essence of the implementation of its spatial characteristics. The research material was scientific articles published in Language Sciences for 2022‒2023. The main research methods were the descriptive method and contextual analysis. According to the results of the study, it was revealed that the actual speech representation of the disciplinary field of scientific research can be represented by an indication of a specific scientific field, disciplinary affiliation of cited scientists, as well as the use of terminological units in the texts of scientific articles that reflect the key scientific concepts of the study. Thematic boundaries of scientific work are established by formulating the object, subject and material of the study, as well as by designating issues that are within the scope of the work, and issues that remain outside the scope of the study. Additionally, both of the above components constitute a complex cognitive space in the structure of the chronotope of the English academic discourse. Conclusion. In the course of the study, the concept of the disciplinary-thematic topos was formulated as one of the forms for implementing the chronotope of scientific discourse in its spatial paradigm, and the forms of verbalization of the disciplinary-thematic field at the levels of explication and implication were identified.

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