1. The Subject matter of Text linguistics

1. The Subject matter of Text linguistics
Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars. ... In general it is an application of discourse analysis at the much broader level of text, rather than just a sentence or word.
The subject of text linguistics depends on the aim of investigation. It might be the semantic, structural, grammatical, stylistic, communicative, pragmatic, cognitive and other aspects of the text. cohesion, i.e. different types of formal connections (lexical, grammatical, syntactical, stylistic, etc.)
Text linguistics is a closely related field. The essential difference between discourse analysis and text linguistics is that discourse analysis aims at revealing socio-psychological characteristics of a person/persons rather than text structure.
However, these two concepts are fundamentally different from each other.
Supraphrasal unity is a unit of syntax that forms a special level in relation to the sentence. It is the predominant object of the grammar of the text. Moskalskaya O.I. Grammar of the text., p14
A whole speech work cannot be defined from the point of view of grammar, although it has grammatical features. This is a phenomenon, first of all, a socio-speech, communicative unit of the highest level, serving the most diverse spheres of society. Schmidt, Text Theory, 1973, p145.
As for the subject of study of text linguistics, here, as in any other scientific discipline, linguists single out a single subject. Its subject is the study of models for constructing coherent speech.
2. Connection of text linguistics with other sciences
The connections of text linguistics with various linguistic disciplines are quite obvious. Thus, the concept of the semantic structure of a word as a structure capable of drawing additional representations into its orbit is associated with lexicology and semasiology. At the same time, it is directly connected with the text, and only in the text is this ability of the word revealed and the secondary meanings of linguistic units are realized. The sign can be used in the direct meaning, fixed in the dictionary, and in the figurative (secondary code) meaning, ĸᴏᴛᴏᴩᴏᴇ, as a rule, is generated by the text and should not be fixed in dictionaries.
Close links also exist between text linguistics and linguistic stylistics. The sphere of linguistic stylistics includes the description of text types. On the other hand, the selection of text types, the construction of a typology at the text level are considered as one of the basic sections of text linguistics. Τᴀᴋᴎᴍ ᴏϬᴩᴀᴈᴏᴍ, the fields of study of text linguistics and linguistic stylistics intersect. Another important task of linguistic stylistics is the study of the expressive means of the language, namely: the study of the expressive-emotional potential of language units of various levels and its implementation in speech. In the expressive means of the language and stylistic devices, there is a dialectical unity of opposites - the uniqueness of the image created by the artist and the ability to repeat indefinitely in his models. The uniqueness, the uniqueness of the artistic image should be revealed only within the framework of a holistic text, since the expressive means of the language acquire their true, real life only in the text. At the same time, penetration into the text is possible only if the models on which it is built are known.
Linguistics of the text is related to syntax. The study of a text as a special system is possible if there are text units that are characterized not only by their length, but also by the special properties of their constituent elements. The division of the text, the allocation of units that make up the text, began to be dealt with long before the formation of text linguistics as an independent field of linguistics. This determines the connections of text linguistics with syntactic theory, since the actual articulation, selection of topics and rhemes is possible not within the sentence, but only within the text (units larger than the sentence).
Linguistics of the text is characterized by both commonality with these linguistic disciplines and difference from them. This mainly concerns the methodology of the study. Text linguistics is characterized by an explanation of linguistic facts not only with the help of linguistic facts - the compatibility of linguistic signs, their distribution in the speech chain, but also the widespread involvement of extra linguistic factors.