Epigraph in the academic discourse: (A case study of the Spanish language)

The article studies the expressive aspect of a scientific text and the mechanisms of its construction through the notion of interdiscourse that meets the new tendencies in the development of linguistic science. The aim of this work is to analyze the Spanish scientific text as a result of the actualization of interdiscursive relationships and to study the specific functioning of these links within the Spanish academic sphere of communication. The choice of the research topic is determined by the switching of linguists' interest from the study of linguistic laws to the study of human communication laws. Modern linguistics as a whole is formed as an anthropological science; in other words, the study of linguistic processes proceeds in indissoluble connection with consumers of communicative activity and presupposes the consideration of the human factor, when the subject of speech and its recipient are included into the description of linguistic mechanisms. Traditionally, the question of such text property as communicative, dialogical nature was considered in relation to fiction. However, many researchers have proved that the scientific text, including its paratext elements, is also aimed at conducting a dialogue with the reader. The epigraph, integrated into scientific text, is clearly separated from the author's word as an explicit quotation, and, as a rule, belongs to another type of discourse, characterizes the spatiotemporal organization of Spanish scientific works, and has a strong effect of influence. A study of interdiscursive links implementation within the Spanish academic discourse is particularly relevant in terms of contemporary general linguistic developments and in terms of Spanish linguistics itself. The texts of Spanish scientific articles and dissertations were used as a research material. The main research methods were the discursive and communicative approaches as the leading ones in the modern linguistics. © Serials Publications.