On Some Aspects of Linguistic Economy in English Academic Discourse

Abstract

The principle of language economy which is an integral part of speech-making is expressed at all levels of a language and is, in fact, the power which regulates the interrelations of various internal and external factors that have a direct or indirect influence on the development of the language system. The natural demand of the language of science is to transfer as much information as possible with the fewest possible linguistic means.  This, in turn, is conditioned by the impact of a number of linguistic and extralinguistic factors, including the firm and logical structure of mind, brevity, information load, economy of time and space, etc. The analysis aims to find out how and to what extent the principle of language economy is manifested in scientific prose from the perspective of the syntactic, semantic and functional peculiarities of the text.