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Step 4 What is the author’s message?
Step 4b What is the author’s message?
Once again enumerate the means with the help of which the author conveys the message and achieves the goal of communication with the reader. The final step of the text analysis includes your personal impressions and attitudes towards the story, its subject, problems, stylistic features and the message.
Questions for consideration:

1. 
   How do you understand the text interpretation?
   
2. 
   What types of text interpretation are there in stylistics/
   
3. 
   What should we pay attention to in the text interpretation?
   

Interpretation and analyses of the belles-lettres text.
A belles-lettres text is usually complex and consists of several layers. The task of interpreatation is to extract maximum of information, thought and emotions conveyed by the author. The interpretation of a literary text as a rule undergoes two stages. At the second stage we perform a thorough linguistic analysis, examining the main categories of the text, its title, poetic details and stylistic devices.
Informativity is the main category of the text. According to Prof. I.K.Galperin the following types of information are distinguished: a) context-factual; b) context-subtextual or implicit and c) context-conceptual. Content-factual information contains reports about facts, events, processes which took place. In other word’s it’s a plot of the text. Content-subtextual information is not explicit: it is not expressed in the verbal layer of the text. The aim of an interpret is to find the signals of implicit information and with their help analyze the concealed information.
Context-conceptual information conveys to the reader the author’s individual perception of the events, his modality and outlook. Poetic Details are used by the author to represent the whole picture through seemingly insignifacant descriptions. Poetic details carry out different functions in the literary text. According to their functions they are divided into the following types: a) depicting details; b) authenticity details; c) characterological details; d) implicit details. Title has a great importance for revealing for conceptual information, conveyed in the text. According to their form and information titles a classified into: a) a title symbol; b) a title thesis; c) a title quotation; d) a title report; e) a title hint; f) a title narration. Comprising the quintessence of the book’s content, the title represents the nucleus of the conceptual information. The title can be metaphorically depicted as wound up spiral revealing its potentialities in the process of unwinding.
SCHEME OF INTERPRETATION
1. Say a few words about the author and the cultural context.
2. Relate the plot of the story.
3. Charactarize the composition of the text.
4. Reveal the conceptual information of the text:
a) poetic details and their functions;
b) stylistic devices and their functions;
c) comment on the vocabulary of text (literary bookish, foreign words, poetic words, colloquialisms, neologisms, slang and so on) , find thematic and key words;
d) comment on the implicit information (implicit title, implicit detail, SDs)
e) comment on the meaning of the title and connect it with conceptual information.

QUESTIONS FOR DUSCUSSION

1. Define the subject – matter of text interpretation.
2. What types of informativity do you know?
3. What is the Poetic detail? What types of poetic details are distinguished?
4. What is the role of the title in revealing the conceptual information of the text?
5. What is the scheme of interpretation?