Editor`swork under the picturesqueness of the scientific informational text

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The subject of this research has been studying different linguistic means of expressing emotions which help to enliven somewhat dry scientific informative text and make it more persuasive. Our research has been focused on metaphors and idioms, as their conciseness and depth help to deliver an author’s idea and his unique style in the most precise and adequate manner. On the syntactic level, expressivity is provided by highlighting certain aspects of the text, specifying more important from the point of view of the author information, introducing additional information and explanations with the idea of drawing readers’ attention to them. Therefore an editor has to know how to use of the specifying inserted patterns. The author of this research comes to the conclusion that it is quite acceptable to introduce some informal language patterns into scientific language and there is no need to be afraid of doing it. Reasonable use of expressive laconic linguistic patterns will not only spoil it but will make it communicatively full-fledged.

Keywords: scientific informational text, expression, metaphor, idiom, picturesqueness.


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