Terminologization of the Criterion of «Quality» in the Academic Discourse of Assessment

This study focuses on the process of verbal intensification of evaluation in the terminologization of one of the key criteria of the axiological space – “quality” – in academic institutional discourse. The article discusses both individual and institutional aspects related to the evaluation of scientific research. Based on the analysis of micro-contexts of various documents aimed at the conventionalization of objective evaluation, the pragmatic potential of terminologization is determined in the process of creating unified criteria and scalar standardization in the academic discourse of assessing the scientist's activity. The empirical material was provided by three evaluation documents used for expert assessment of the quality of scientific research, namely: the review of the thesis and the review of the master's thesis in Russian and the review of the article in English. The author concludes that the obligatory semantic-intensified binding of evaluative and estimative elements and the additional conventionalization of episodic-subjective components of quality assessment on the basis of argumentation are necessary in order to create a clear system of definitions, indicators, and metrics that reflect the multilevel field of quality in various academic assessment texts. The results of the work emphasize the importance of implementing standard quality criteria, which can improve the overall performance of scientific work.

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