Slovenska strokovna besedila visoke stopnje specializiranosti med kulturnimi in globalnimi vplivi

slovenian

2017

volume 62, issue 1

Slovene    Text linguistics 

Slavistično društvo Slovenije
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

The article addresses the stylistic characteristics of technical texts from two perspectives. A number of recent studies of technical communication have pointed to cultural influences, but at the same time they emphasise the need to go beyond localisation and to move to global communication following the model of a lingua franca. Adaptation to general tendencies that are independent of the primary cultural system leads to a convergence of stylistic norms, and intercultural differences in technical thinking with a high degree of specialisation are reduced due to the absorption of foreign-language structures. Slovenian technical discourse has been diachronically shaped following the model of more influential linguistic cultural systems, especially German; stylistic analysis is therefore comparatively based on German technical discourse.

16.01.2018