STUDYING FEATURES OF NEGATION CATEGORY IN ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC STYLE
The article treats one of the complex phenomena of the English language - the category of negation - from the perspective of functional stylistics based on the study of English scientific articles. It substantiates the relevance of the topic under investigation by the existence in linguistics of a number of disagreements and contradictions in the interpretation of the category status of negation and its interaction with other categories. The multidimensionality of the category of negation is emphasized. The article introduces various points of view of domestic and foreign linguists on the problem. The notion of negation is defined as a linguistic, functional and semantic category that expresses the presence of negative relationships between the elements of the semantic structure that manifests itself at various language levels and has a specific functional load. It is noted that negation is expressed by the language means of different levels: lexical, word-formation, phraseological, syntactic. Some features of the category of negation functioning in English scientific article are identified.