VI.. Passing on knowledge

V. Making conclusions

IV. Checking up

III. Organization and systematization

II. Acquiring knowledge

I. Prospect, out look

adhere, assume, assumption, attempt, count on, expect, imply, intend, plan, postulate, predetermine, propose, proposition, suggest, suppose, term, etc.

adopt, borrow, carry out, collect, compare, compa­rison, conduct, create, creation, discover, elaborate, examination, experiment, find, investigate, investiga­tion, notice, observation, perceive, perception, record, register, research, scan, seek, study, etc.

ascribe, assign, bring out, class, classify, classifica­tion, combine, combination, compile, component, com­prise, concentrate, confine, confinement, connect, con­sist, constitute, contrast, construct, construction, con­tain, correlation, correspond, differ, difference, diffe­rentiate, disproportion, distinction, distinguish, divide, division, element, enumeration, emphasis, group, im­portance, include, interdependence, limit, member, orga­nize, refer, relation, relationship, restrict, result (from), separation, single out, sequence, select, stand out, stress, type, underline, unit, unity, etc.

appropriateness, check, clarity, confuse (with), cor­rectness, defend, discrepancy, doubt, exception, inacceptability, mistake, omission, reconsider, reformulate, etc.

abstract, abstraction, achieve, acquire, analyze, analysis, arrive (at), apprehension, appreciation, association, avail, assess, assessment, associate, believe, category, characterize, character, characteristic; comprehend (concept), conclude, conclusion, consider, consideration define, deduce, effect, establish, evaluation, feature formulate, generalize, generalization, judgement, invent, opinion, peculiarity, point of view, precept, prefer, reach, realize, receive, regard, regularity, resolve, rule, solution, state, statement, succeed, think, thought, work out, etc.

advise, consult, discuss, discussion, elucidate, ex­pound, exemplify, explain, explanation, illustrate, indi­cate, indication, instance, instruct, introduce, interpret, issue, mention, reiterate, remind, repeat, review, ren­der, understand, etc.

From the above sample lists we conclude that words belonging to the general scientific vocabulary deal with processes of acquiring and passing on information, making prospects, arriving at certain results, checking them, making conclusions, etc. This naturally narrows down the lexical "diapason" (range) of words in scien­tific texts in the sense that, on the whole, they acquire special meanings. It is here that ordinary lexemes cease to be words of the general language. However stran­ge it may seem, the general character of this vocabu­lary is that it is no longer "general" without reserva­tion. Otherwise stated, it remains general only in the sense that words appear to be simple and familiar and can easily be imagined as functioning in all registers of speech. But the moment they are used in a scientific text, a certain transposition of their meaning is bound to occur.

- To reiterate: there does exist a category of words -the general scientific vocabulary-which constitutes a separate group within the overall lexis of our register. It is kept distinct from both terms and the general vocabulary. Although the latter is also used in scientific narration (as well as in any other text) it is by no means its most important, let alone, constitutive part,

The above approach to the general scientific voca­bulary is by no means the only possible one: the general scientific vocabulary can also be profitably stu­died from the point of view of the division of its words into those of Romance and those of Anglo-Saxon ori­gin. This division, roughly, corresponds to the one dis­cussed at great length in the controversy we gave an idea of above between G. H. Vallins and Sir Ernest Cowers.

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