Strategi Pengenalan Teks Ilmiah Berbahasa Melayu: Dimensi Nahuan

There is a general perception that pure sciences and social sciences and humanities academic discourse are distinct. Nevertheless, what is the distinction and to what extent the difference is less described. From linguistics point of view, the obvious and realized distinction between these two areas is what is called language register – where their lexical and terms varies. However what makes a language event a discourse is not only lexical, other aspects also comes into play for example grammatical, content, discursivity and context of productions. The utilization of these aspects in producing a text is named as ‘discourse strategy’. This paper intends to gather some of the answers to the question. Therefore this study describes and explains four grammatical strategies used by the scientific texts in both area in written Malay language, namely initial adverbial phrase, process type, type of sentence and thematic types as employed by a credible writer in recognised journals. Data is confined to introduction section only. Findings show common pattern of usage for all grammatical aspects and does not show much difference. Both areas show lots of usage of situational initial adverbial phrase, marked theme sentences, simple compared to complex sentences, and action process. The similarities of these four grammatical aspects show that in the production of discourse in both areas, what are more important are values and academic requirement, and less on area