HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

LEXICAL AND STYLISTIC features OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACADEMIC LECTURES (CORPUS-based ANALYSIS)

2019. №1, pp. 5-12

Nikolaeva Natalja N. - Candidate of Philological Sciences, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 105005, Russia, Moscow, 5/1 2-ya Baumanskaya st, nnn55n73@mail.ru

Truphanova Natalia O. - Candidate of Philological Sciences, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 105005, Russia, Moscow, 5/1 2-ya Baumanskaya st, natru@bmstu.ru

The article considers some language features of oral English-language academic lectures on Economics. A modern university lecture is proved to be a special kind of discourse characterized by a conversational style, as well as orientation to interactivity and transnationality. The goal of the study is to determine both the lexical and stylistic features of orally presented English lectures and their impact on the student audience. The corpus-based and interpretation analyses of the collected linguistic data demonstrate that the conversational style of modern academic lectures combines features of both colloquial speech and formal academic writing. The widespread use of reduced forms, interjections, false starts, semantically uncertain lexical units, idiomatic expressions, and frequent ellipses prove our assumptions. Our findings show the deep interdependence between the lecture language features and the lecturers’ linguistic behavior, as well as their methodological and pedagogical purposes. The study results can be used for preparing and delivering lectures in English at Russian universities

Key words: профессиональная коммуникация, академический английский язык, корпусный анализ, конверсационный стиль, лексические особенности, языковое влияние, professional communication, English for academic purposes, corpus-based analysis, conversational style, lexical features, linguistic effect

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