Literary text in aspect of its communicative structure: theoretical perspective  

Abstract.

LITERARY TEXT IN ASPECT OF ITS COMMUNICATIVE STRUCTURE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

Viktoriia Andrushchenko

Department of English Philology and Translation, Horlivka Institute for Foreign Languages of the State Higher Educational Establishment “Donbas State Pedagogical University”, Dnipro, Ukraine.

Abstract

Background: The study throws light at text as a structural, semantic, communicative, and paradigmatic unity. The research of text, literary in particular, has lately been carried out with basic focus on its structural and semantic characteristics. To analyze text as a communication system it is reasonable to trace and qualify communicative and sociolinguistic status of its categories.

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to survey communicative properties of the grammatical organization of text structure by coherence category interrelation with text categories of addresser, addressee, intentionality, informativity, and intertextuality.

Results: In the course of study, it has been ascertained that text as a linguistic message depends on the addresser’s linguopsychomental activity (categories of coherence, addresser, intentionality, informativity, intertextuality, and integrity), since deep perception and successful interpretation of                     the addresser’s intention, linguistically embedded in text content, by the addressee depends on his / her personal, social, cultural, ethnic, status, etc. role (category of addressee). The latter enables to identify categories of coherence, addresser, addressee, intentionality, informativity, and intertextuality as linguistic and social (A. Zahnitko), i.e., sociolinguistic; categories of continuum, segmentation, and integrity – as communicative.

Discussion: Text research in communicative aspect evokes issues of linguistic text analysis, its methods and techniques, which lie in consideration of a broader number of text categories and their interrelation with category of coherence as a principal one.

Keywords: literary text, communicative structure, sociolinguistic categories of coherence, addresser, addressee, intentionality, informativity, and intertextuality.

Vitae

Viktoriia Andrushchenko is Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Department of English Philology and Translation in Horlivka Institute for Foreign Languages of the State Higher Educational Establishment “Donbas State Pedagogical University”; Postdoctoral Applicant of Department of General and Applied Linguistics and Slavonic Philology at Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University. Her areas of research interests include text linguistics and comparative linguistics.

Correspondence: v.andrushchenko@donnu.edu.ua 

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