Scientific text in the humanities as a specific text type (based on English scientific texts)

The paper presents a scientific text in the Humanities field as verbalization of scientific knowledge of the Humanities type. The author concludes that a scientific textcan differ in its composition and language depending on what type of scientific knowledge it presents. A scientific text of the Humanities profile is a text type which verbalizes scientific knowledge taking into account the following characteristics of the scientific knowledge of the Humanities type:subject-focused, evaluation-based, dialogue-oriented. Analysis of the scientific text corpus in the Humanities field written by English-speaking scholars revealed that dialogue orientation plays a key role in the texts. This feature is realized with the help of the category of addressee orientation which is described in terms of communicative strategy and communicative tactics.