QUOTATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC TEXTS AS INFLUENCED BY DISCURSIVE CHANGES
The article describes the changes which have taken place in scientific arts and humanities texts in the field of citation, as well as the conditions which influence quotations in modern scientific discourse. Repre-senting the most important quality of scientific text’s existence and a means of argumentation, quotations are widely used in monographs and scientific articles and perform various functions. However, against the back-ground of the general increase in the scope of citation the author notes the reduction of the number of quota-tions with axiological function. This fact is explained fact by the decrease in the level of critical thinking characteristic for modern scientific discourse. In this regard the relevance of the problem of young resear-chers’ academic literacy formation of is emphasized.