Pragma-semantic features of the argumentative word "still" in the scientific discourse of criticism

Barebina Natalia S., Semenova Vera V.

the article is devoted to the role of the word STILL in the function of the argumentative word in English. The empirical material is presented in a corpus of examples of critical reviews of scientific works in the subject areas of applied linguistics. The article analyzes the pragmatic and semantic features of the STILL lexeme in the formation of the criticism argument. This lexeme is analyzed in the context of the categories of text coherence and in the light of data on the linguistic status of the argument words. The argumentative mechanism of orientation in the secondary deixis is shown.

Keywords:argumentation, anaphora, deixis, criticism, words-arguments.