ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE OF ENGINEERING DISCOURSE / TEXT AS A BASIC ALGORITHMOF THE LANGUAGE ENGINEERING

The main phases of engineering are interpreted as a model of the cognitive and professional activity of the engineer. The author describes the extrapolation of the phases of the engineer’s attempt to come to grips with the large mass of texts found in engineering manuals, and she demonstrates their structural regularities. She equally demonstrates the universal character of the architectonics used in all spheres of professional and scientific communication about engineering.

Cognitivist theory, theory of decision-making, phases of engineering activities, model of cognitive and professional activity of the engineer, manuals of basic, fundamental and specialized fields of engineering, structure of engineering terminology