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PART ONE
BELLES-LETTRES FUNCTIONAL STYLE
I. Introductory Notes
1.1. Aims and purposes of the integrated approach to the belles-lettres text analysis. The course of analytical reading for the 4th year university students majoring in the English language and literature aims at further developing the students’ skills of reading authentic belles-lettres texts, not only, and not merely as an aid in learning the language, but as works of verbal art whose poetic content and artistic linguostylistic peculiarities should be properly perceived and appreciated as something global, united by the author’s artistic message to the reader. Hence the necessity to embark on an integrated method of a belles-lettres text analysis which combines a traditional linguostylistic analysis, mainly focusing on the identification and description of linguostylistic concepts proper (individual stylistic devices and expressive means), on the one hand, and a complex wholistic approach to the text as an integral communicative unit and as an object of a separate branch of linguistics, generally known as textlinguistics, on the other.
Textlinguistics requires a complex approach to the text as an object of its study, including its formal-semantic structure, its logico-conceptual unity and functional-communicative aspect of its nature. Since any text is a communicative unit, all its structural and semantic properties undergo the influence of the situation of communication. So, texts belonging to different functional styles and characterized by different functional-communicative aims have a particular structure and possess particular lingual features which can be subjected to textlinguistic analysis.
The main aims of the analytical procedures in terms of textlinguistics are two-sided: 1. to master the techniques and methods of the analysis as such; 2. to acquire the adequate metalanguage of the analysis which comprises not only the necessary linguistic terminology, but also a certain amount of speech-patterns and word-combinations of a clichéd character, generally used in this field of speech communication.