Linguistic peculiarities of English civil aviation texts

The current article is devoted to the analysis of linguistic features in English texts related to civil aviation. The subject of this research is the stylistic peculiarities of texts on civil aviation, which are achieved through certain language means. Research in the article is done on the basis of scientific and technical styles. From the point of view of linguistics, stylistics, grammar and vocabulary are considered in relation to scientific and technical literature. In the research, the author applied the following research methods : a descriptive method used to identify, interpret and classify linguistic means characteristic of the aviation texts, a contextual analysis method used to reveal the peculiarities of functioning of different means belonging to various language levels in scientific prose. The scientific novelty of this research consists in the conducted for the first time complex study of stylistic, lexical, morphological and syntactic features inherent to English-language texts on civil aviation. There are no monographic works devoted to this topic. The study, conducted in the article, revealed that English civil aviation texts are characterized by the presence of clearly defined causative-consecutive connections, as well as by accuracy, clarity, the author’s objective attitude to the facts, and the information richness of the material, which is expressed in the text with the help of various language means. These language means may not have direct correspondence in the translating language, thus cause difficulties when translating specialized texts, and require special professional skills of translators. Knowledge and mastery of these language tools will allow to feel competitive at the international market.

scientific and technical text, civil aviation, language means, lexical means, morphological peculiarities, syntactic constructions, general technical vocabulary, terminology, non-finite forms, attributive groups