LEXICAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE
Abstract
This article investigates the lexical and terminological organization of scientific discourse, with special attention to the role of academic texts in the development of linguistic and professional competence. The study distinguishes between specialized terms and common scientific expressions, explains their discourse functions, and shows how they contribute to cohesion, logical progression, and conceptual precision in research writing. Drawing on the material of academic articles and theses, the paper also discusses the relationship between terminology, scientific phraseology, and academic literacy. In addition to the theoretical overview, the article offers a functional classification of frequently used scientific expressions and presents a comparative table of English, Uzbek, and Russian examples. It is argued that scientific discourse is characterized by conceptual density, lexical recurrence, terminological exactness, and a high level of rhetorical organization. For that reason, scientific texts should be considered not only as sources of subject knowledge, but also as effective tools for teaching scholarly communication in a non-native language.
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