‘Academicity' of Russian research medical texts: specific aspects of manifestation

The article discusses specific aspects of medical research texts. The author argues that academicity is one of the basic properties of research medical texts and analyses the way it is manifested in Russian research papers of the medical corpus. The study involves full-text medical articles published in the peer-reviewed scientific and practical journal “Bulletin of Siberian Medicine”, which is included in international databases. The coefficient of lexical diversity, lexical, grammatical and stylistic means of academicity manifestation are the main parameters for the study. Quantitative analysis demonstrates that Russian-language texts are characterized by a higher coefficient of lexical diversity and contain more unique lexemes than texts of the English-language corpus. Special attention is paid to the use of first-person pronouns: their number is relatively low, which indicates that the researchers' position is not actively expressed in the papers. Other aspects that are considered to be manifestations of the academic style in the texts of the Russian-speaking authors are as follows: the use of a significant number of adjectives and international character of the texts, which is due to the presence of a large number of cognate words. In general, it is noted that academic style is manifested at all levels of text organization. The study has important applied value, since the knowledge of the properties of the academic style will help healthcare professionals to create high-quality articles for presentation of the results of their research.