Concepts of professional discourse as a process of communication between scientists in professional socialization

Abstract

The concept "discourse" has appeared in connection with expansion of linguistic research out of offer limits - to the sphere of superphrase syntax. Therefore, the discourse from the linguistic point of view is the set consisting of a logical chain of offers which are in semantic communication. This article is devoted to a question of studying of a professional discourse. In the article the concept "professional discourse", among adjacent concepts, is described and defined. In this article the professional discourse, understood as communication of experts among themselves or with those who address them for receiving consultation or the professional help, is studied. Professional communication is opposed to nonprofessional. The discourse plays an important role in professional socialization which is the process by means of which people acquire the specialized knowledge, skills, the relations, norms and interests necessary for effective implementation of the professional roles. The professional discourse is the language created by professionals with special training to perform operations in a workplace. Some scientists consider that it is connected only with communication between the writer and the reader, both which are professionals. Others claim that, at least, one of the participants has to be a professional. For example, some scientists claim that one of the defining characteristics of a professional discourse is the importance of the status in which the person has a professional role and, therefore, higher status than the nonprofessional, that is the reason that the professional discourse usually takes place to be in establishment. Therefore, further in our work we will try to consider questions of a professional discourse in more detail. Articles of Russian and foreign scientists who are engaged in studying this problem will be considered and analyzed.