Academic and professional discourse in higher professional education and the literacy concept
AbstractThe article presents the results of an interdisciplinary analysis, categorical synthesis and generalization of experience in the implementation of academic and professional discourse in higher professional education. This discourse is presented as an open system, the process of self-organization of which is aimed at providing life-long education and is directly related to the formation of literacy competencies reflected in Federal State Educational Standards 3++. The article describes the components of discourse in its socio — and pragma-linguistic aspects and the problems of academic and scientific communication of students including the ones which arise when information and communication technologies are used for the purposes of the discourse. Meta-subject, linguistic, operational, critical, and cultural dimensions of literacy competencies are defined as indicators of the formation of the student's academic and discursive Self. The research also specifies necessary conditions for the organization and implementation of the discourse practices.