Understanding Scientific, Technical, and Humanistic Texts
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Scientific and Technical Texts
Scientific Texts: Refer to general and abstract knowledge about a subject.
Technical Texts: Refer to applications of knowledge.
Characteristics
- Specialized topics
- Specific purposes (or communicative intention)
- High degree of formality
- Written channel
- Academic field of use and dissemination of publications
- Specific language
The Language of Scientific and Technical Texts
Pursuit of objectivity, cool and impersonal language: enunciative sentences, rejection of stylistic ornamentation, present tense, passive voice.
Precise and clear vocabulary: using univocal terms, rejection of ambiguity (symbols), words of Greek or Latin origin.
Lexicon of Scientific and Technical Training
Regular language mechanisms:
- Derivation: power of language
- Composition: