Chapter I. Text linguistics as a scientific

QUESTIONS AND TASKS FOR DISCUSSION:

1. 
   What are the major researches in text linguistics?
   
2. 
   Speak on the conception of text linguistics formulated by T. van Dijk.
   
3. 
   What ideas of text linguistics are contained in I.R.Galperin’s monograph?
   
4. 
   What recent publications in text linguistics do you know? What problems are being discussed now?
   
5. 
   Point out the main characteristics of text linguistics as a scien- tific discipline.
   
6. 
   How is the notion of text presented in the linguistic literature and lexicographical sources?
   
7. 
   Comment on the text definition given by I.R. Galperin. What are the arguable points of this definition?
   
8. 
   Discuss the wide and narrow approaches to the notion of text. What is the difference between them?
   
9. 
   Characterize text as a unit of speech and language.
   
10. 
    Why is it impossible to give an exhaustive, universal definition of text? What does the definition of text depend on?
    
11. 
    What are the main properties of text?
    
12. 
    What can you say about the notions of cohesion and coher- ence?
    
13. 
    What is textual modality? Comment on its role in text interpre- tation.