Abstract Over the past several decades, there has been an increasing interest in academic discourse investigations with a specific focus on disciplinary, cultural, and generic aspects of text construction. Studies Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, French, German, Russian (inter alia) have revealed not only universal features characteristic many writing cultures, but also unique rhetorical fe...

English is the main means of international communication in field science, which due to a number factors, namely rapid development science and modern technologies, process globalization, growth scientific information. Accordingly, attention linguists linguistic features characteristics discourse growing. Despite fairly large amount research, some aspects academic need further clarification. The...