Scientific, Humanistic, and Newspaper Texts: Key Features

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Scientific Texts

According to the issuer: research, informational, instructional, and teaching.

According to the receiver: specialized academic and informative.

Objectivity: denotative lexicon, indicative mood, specified adjective propositions, declarative sentences, and plural of modesty.
Universality: generalizing value, gnomic or timeless tense, and abstract nouns.
Accuracy and clarity: structures and links with explanatory value, clauses with commas, enumerations, restatements of certain words, specified adjectives, use of definition, jargon, and extra-sentential links (1st, 2nd) and italics.

According to the issuer: research, educational, informational, instructional, and descriptive.

According to the receiver: specialized academic and informative.

Objectivity: denotative vocabulary, use of grammar, and 3rd person of the indicative mood.
Tendency to abstraction: theoretical and speculative approach, or use of the gnomic and timeless tense with generalizing value.
Accuracy and clarity: structures and links with explanatory value, enumerations of examples, periphrasis of obligation, specified adjectives, technique, composition, and cultured subdivisions with commas and parentheses.

Subjectivity: connotative vocabulary, presence of the writer's "I", possessive pronouns and determinants in 1st person, and plural of modesty.
Stylistic intent: ornamental adjectives, evocative images, and careful selection of vocabulary.
Accuracy and clarity: specific adjectives and connectors of opposition, addition, and causation.
Dialogical nature: interrogative formulas and strong responses.

Categories of information: news, reports, and interviews.

Genres of opinion: editorials, columns, and letters to the editor.

Mixed-Genre: commentary and criticism.

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