Main concepts of text linguistics

text categories are information, completeness, continuity, coherence, cohesion, retrospect, structural and semantic “parsibility”. Hence, cognitive (related to human knowledge) and contextual (related to speech act types) information, as well as pragmatic, contextual and social types, etc. are identified. Explicit and implicit information types are specified from the point of vie of the form in which information is presented in a text.Explicit information about facts and events, real or imagined, present, past or future, is termed factual information. Conceptual information deals with the author’s individual understanding of the interrelations between events described by means of factual information, their validity. Information is said to be closely related to coherence which in its turn is often discussed together with another text property – cohesion. Both refer to molding a text into a unit characterized by logical-semantic and structural-semantic continuity. The two properties are differentiated when cohesion is described as a manifestation of certain aspects of coherence. Or when coherence is understood as a result of the interpreter’s knowledge about states of affairs mentioned in a text, while cohesion is defined as the formal linguistic realization of semantic and pragmatic relations between clauses and sentences in a text. Cohesion is a relational property in that it is established when interpretation of one element in the text is dependent on another element. Grammatical devices are related to temporal and aspective verb forms, the use of conjunctions, pronouns, article determination, syntactical parallelism, ellipsis. Another property which seems to be recurrent (i.e. repeated) feature is text structure. Since ancient times three most general structural parts of the text have been defined: the Introduction, the Main Body, the Conclusion. text categories of oppositional nature: speech agent representation (репрезентативность), vector-direction (направленность) and stage-inclination (целенаправленность).