Larisa Yagenich

This article is devoted to the characteristics of a written scientific medical text. A communicative-pragmatic approach is used for the analyses. The aim of the study is to determine the main linguistic and structural characteristics of a written scientific text for the correct and accurate information, which is presented to the addressee. The treatise is the first big scientific medical work, which has a written form and defines the initial canons for writing theoretical works in order to transfer previously acquired knowledge and experience. The constitutive characteristics of the modern written scientific text are defined as structure, genre affiliation, completeness, continuum, links in the text, interpretation, and pragmatics.

The article is devoted to the study of medical discourse and the study of doctors’ communicative activity. Analysis of literature, comparative analysis, comparison, interpretation theories contributed to the study of successful and unsuccessful to achieve communicative purposes. Pragmalinguistic approach to the analysis of medical discourse in the field of education promotes the doctors’ competence which are implemented in the medical-educational and medical-scientific discourses.