Logical Aspect of Argumentation in Economic Discourse

The paper focuses on the phenomenon of linguistic argumentation. It covers the results of the research of the logical-communicative structure in economic discourse as one of the main components of the text-forming category of argumentation. In the course of the research, the authors carried out an inventory of logical-semantic relations, as well as appropriate means of connection between independent sentences (or groups of sentences) in super phrasal unities (SPU) of the modern economic text. The paper describes in detail the adversative type of logicalsemantic relations and their functions. Whenever possible, the authors compare the results of the present research with the results of their own analysis of scientific-technical texts performed earlier as well as with the data obtained by other researchers who studied logical-semantic relations in literary texts. Seminal works of both Russian and foreign linguists, who carried out their research in the field of linguistic argumentation, laid the foundation for the current research study.