Text and Text categories
Text – is a sequence of verbal signs united by some common m-ng, by com-ve aim. In semiotics, a text – is a m-ngful sequence of any science, a form of com-n (a dance, ballet, card plays, etc.). Text comes from Lat. “texo” – to weave (плести, ткать). Texture means weaving. This term contains a metaphor.
There’s no unity b/w linguists, whether it should be a unit of l-ge or a unit of speech. Some linguists consider it a unit of l-ge, pocessing a m-ngful com-ve integrity. Text may be regarded as medium of discourse. So, text unites both l-ge emitities and speech quaties. So, it’s a unit of both l-ge and speech.
The length of the text is immaterial for its definition. It may consist of one or several s-ces and it may full volumes.
Ex. Robert Frost “The Spam Of Life”:
The old dog bucks backword without getting up,
I can remember, when he was a pup
Haiku:
Knitting above all
Silence and warmth we produce
Brutal cold and noise.
Text categories is a feature peculiar to all texts, a typological quality of text. Any text presents a comb-n of cat-ries. Galperin names the following ones:
informativity
cohision
retrospection and prospection
modality
integrity and completeness
Informativity. Galperin distinguishes 3 types of information:
- factual (содерж-е фактуальной инф-ции). The accounts of facts, events, news (plot).
It is explicit, verbally expressed. Thel-ge means are used in their denotative m-ng.
conceptual – contains the author’s individual vision and the understanding of the
relations b/w the events and facts, presented by factual inf-n. Their causes and
consequences, their significance in the cultural economic life. This inf-n is implicit,
but transmitted by the whole str-re of the facts and allows dif. interpretations. In fact,
the author’s vision is expressed.
implicative/hidden inf-n (СЛИ) is gained from the surface str-re and presents associative and connotative m-ngs.
Text interpretation – is the revealing of implicative and conceptual inf-n, the discovery of the deep str-re under the surface str-re.
In case of disifering, implicative inf-n the reader’s perception of the text is two or more demential (impl-ve and conceptional inf-ns are revealed from the superlinear analysis).
Implicative inf-n is closely connected with modality. The drawback is that it is difficult to draw the line b/w implicative and conceptional inf-n. That’s why linguists speak of two types of information.
Arnold distinguishes:
logical inf-n, which she likenes (сравнивает) to the denotative m-ng of the w-d
additional inf-n, corresponding to the connotative m-ng of a w-d, which tells us about the situation, estetic values, etc.
Kuharenko speaks about two types of implication:
1)implicative inform-n):
a) priority inf-n (затекст)
b) implication (импликация одновременности)
The means to create priority implication;
the definite article “the”, when it occupies the initial situation in the text, continuating or resuming the text, creating the effect of beginning from the middle
the use of personal and demonstrative pronouns
Ex. It was raining that morning
the use of 3rd personal pr-ns at the beginning – creation some kind of tension; the reader is to clear up, who is – she or he. So, the reader is plunged into the inform-n
adverbs: now
2) hidden m-ng. It’s created by distant repetition, contrast, the juxt opposition, incongress
(несоответствие) elements
Cohision (сцепление) – a special type of connection, which ensures the continuation of the text, the logical sequense of facts, events, actions.
Galperin speaks of two types of C.:
1) logical
2) associative
Logical C. is created by logical m-ng;
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