LINGUO-COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF ENGLISH MATHEMATICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article highlights linguo-cognitive aspects of English mathematical discourse that synergistically encompasses multilevel sign-logical functional structures and presents an integral system of scientifically formalized natural language and symbolic signs. The actual study highlights the professional language not only as a system of strictly defined concepts of a certain practical area of application, but as a phenomenon for preserving knowledge, mental attributes, spiritual values, which permits the consideration of its uniqueness in a holistic scientific world, presenting both the process and the result of scientific production and ideas exchange. Among the linguistic and cognitive parameters of English mathematical discourse architectonics the following structuring principles were distinguished: universal character (the universal truth of knowledge), high level of formalization, professional verification, isolation (limited access to information determined by the level of professional competence of the addressee), pragmatism, dialogism, cognitive creative nature of the argumentation (synthesis of hypothetical preconditions, theoretical knowledge and creativity of reasoning leading to the production of new knowledge), professional value, disproportional development and non-cyclicality, determined by the non-synchronicity of gnostic professional activity, dynamism and didacticism as a sign of stylistic layering in correlation with the sphere and forms of communication.